Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same time, there's a real lightheartedness about just… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I think that I do feel that my nature is to express what this self, this particular self at this time, experiences… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“Keep in mind always the present you are constructing. It should be the future you want.” — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
So the best thing is to really work on yourself and opening your own heart and just letting all that stuff [worrying]… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
What did it mean for a black woman to be an artist in our grandmothers' time? In our great-grandmothers' day? It is… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I am an elder, and I am delighted to be an elder. I would like to exhibit [and] explore it more -… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
A people do not throw their geniuses away. And if they are thrown away, it is our duty as artists and as… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Storytelling, you know, has a real function. The process of the storytelling is itself a healing process, partly because you have someone… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
The hardest part is when you're in danger yourself. You have to face what could happen and might be likely to happen… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
There is always a moment in any kind of struggle when one feels in full bloom. Vivid. Alive. One might be blown… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“Storytelling, you know, has a real function. The process of the storytelling is itself a healing process, partly because you have someone… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
HELPED are those whose every act is a prayer for peace; on them depends the future of the world. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
June Jordan, who died of cancer in 2002, was a brilliant, fierce, radical, and frequently furious poet. We were friends for thirty… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
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
Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence - as it saves most writers who live in 'interesting' oppressive times… — 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
I used to meditate all the time in bed. That was when I was raising my daughter, and I'd get her up… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
before I embark on any new venture, I ask myself: will the joy of doing this make me lose track of any… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Since the time of the witch burnings, the grandmothers and the healers and the midwives have been systematically targeted. And burned at… — 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
