It's better to have your blackness taken away than to stand and lie about who you actually are. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
It's better to have your blackness taken away than to stand there and lie about who you actually are. That's the trap. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I think Americans generally are not used to working very hard, in terms of working for the collective. I think in our… — 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
In the summer of 1966, I went to Mississippi to be in the heart of the civil-rights movement, helping people who had… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I grew up in the South under segregation. So, I know what terrorism feels like - when your father could be taken… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I grew up in the South [USA states] under segregation. I know what terrorism feels like - when your father could be… — 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 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
![“I grew up in the South [USA states] under segregation. I know what terrorism feels like - when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn't look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. That's terrorism…” quote by Alice Walker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/6d1/alice-walker-347_father_i-grew-up-in-the-south-usa-states-under_2370529.jpg)
