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 think I'm led by spirit. I think I'm led by a sense of what is right and what feels good to… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
The earth is for joy, and dancing is a big part of that. And you dance with nature. Nature is always dancing.… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I know what I'm thinking bout, I think. Nothing. And as much of it as I can. — 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
Laughter isn't even the other side of tears. It is tears turned inside out. Truly the suffering is great, here on earth.… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
What a burden to think one is conceived in sin rather than in pleasure; that one is born into evil rather than… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I think the War on Terror is really absurd, especially coming from a country that is founded on terrorism. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I think if I could not get myself off my cushion, off my couch, or away from whatever I'm eating - or… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I think that indigenous women's wisdom is crucial. So much of the care of the Earth has come from the mothers. I… — 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 always have felt that elders are really important. I think it's because, in my little Southern black culture, elders really were… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America's really large shadow and that's not… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I really think admiration for nature can save us. I mean true admiration, to the point of not letting it be harmed. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I don't know if you actually get something out of writing poetry. I think poetry is an autonomous muse that decides to… — 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 feel a little peculiar around the children. For one thing, they grown. And I see they think me and Nettie and… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Well, sometime Mr —— git on me pretty hard. I have to talk to Old Maker. But he my husband. I shrug… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
God is different to us now, after all these years in Africa. More spirit than ever before, and more internal. Most people… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
My writing is very organic. It's what I am. My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I think mothers and daughters are meant to give birth to each other, over and over; that is why our challenges to… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Listen, God love everything you love - and a mess of stuff you don't. But more than anything else, God love admiration.… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
The forest is the first cathedral. I felt that from the time I was a child. I credit my mother with that.… — 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
