People have so many hang-ups about how other people live their lives. People always want to keep you in a little box,… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
During my years of being close to people engaged in changing the world I have seen fear turn into courage. Sorrow into… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I think I've actually returned to a kind of realism about how the world works. That's helpful. Because in a way, no… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I don't focus on criticism. I prefer to praise people and the world, rather than criticize them and it. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
What I've seen from keeping in touch as well as I can is that what I find so typical in Mexican culture… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Part of what confuses people in times of upheaval is that you're getting so many different points of view and directions and… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I just think cities are unnatural, basically. I know there are people who live happily in them, and I have cities that… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
In a way, no matter who's in charge of the corporation that the United States is, the direction in which it is… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
She was so quiet. So reflective. And she could erase herself, her spirit, with a swiftness that truly startled, when she knew… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
When people become elders - when they're older; they can be old without being an elder, really. They [can] just be old… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I see myself in all the people in the world who are suffering and who are very badly treated and who are… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
People who work hard often work too hard. ... May we learn to honor the hammock, the siesta, the nap and the… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Be nobody's darling; Be an outcast. Take the contradictions Of your life And wrap around You like a shawl, To parry stones… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
My big complaint with myself is that I get tired. But, I forgive myself because it's human to get tired. But, I… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I continue to care for President Obama and for his family. I think that in many ways they are very courageous people,… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I am not convinced that men and women were ever meant to share the same house, though some people can do it… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I know black people love the idea that we finally have a beautiful, good-looking black president. But if he is doing awful… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Writing about people helps us to understand them, and understanding them helps us to accept them as part of ourselves. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Not everyone's life is what they make it. Some people's life is what other people make it. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
As long as the people don't fear the truth, there is hope. For once they fear it, the one who tells it… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
The harm that you do to others is the harm that you do to yourself and you cannot think then that you… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I gave my archive to Emory University because there's a really dear friend who teaches there, Rudolph Byrd, and he's the editor. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Just be what it is that you are, and that is just fine. You don't have to be what you're not in any way.… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“Remember this-- say it & know it is true: Alice loves me Alice loves me and I am not blamed for this. ... she… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“Why aren't you happy in America, if everyone there drives motorcars?” — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“She saw poetry where other writers merely saw failure to cope with English.” — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
My mother had handed down respect for the possibilities...and the will to grasp them. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Helped are those who are content to be themselves; they will never lack mystery in their lives and the joys of self-discovery will be… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“As others might prepare for an exam whose subject matter is unknown to them, so I must study, cram, for every conversation with my… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father's head. It taught me about women defending… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Many readers fail to realize this, but 'The Color Purple' is a theological text. It is about the reclamation of one's original God: the… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
