Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
If we want to fight people in the world, we should fight them with pillows - pillows stuffed with food, medicine, music...… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don't even recognize that growth is happening...Those long periods when something inside… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that's going on always, and learn to ride with it… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I'm where I need to be, so my heart is light. Whatever happens, I know - I mean, I feel - that… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
You know, one race will not be a survivor if the other one dies, and that's something that we should think about. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you've become a baby again and the rest of your life should… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
To me war is something to be outgrown, recognized as immature, wasteful, and so destructive to life that human beings should shun… — 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 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 understood at a very early age that in nature, I felt everything I should feel in church but never did. Walking… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
The Olinka girls do not believe girls should be educated. When I asked a mother why she thought this, she said: A… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
People will say to you, "Oh, you are fearless." That is so not true. We should stop saying that about people. It's… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I think that all people who feel that there is injustice in the world anywhere should learn as much of it as… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
My activism really is for myself, because I see places in the world where I feel I should be. If there is… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I loved meditation. I love it because that's where you find what your voice is. You cannot really find it easily in… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I write not only what I want to read...I write all the things I should have been able to read. — 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
