I live a very secluded life, a very contemplative life and a very meditative one. That is my ideal life. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I think many people in my community had very different kinds of mothers: they had mothers who acquiesced in the system of… — 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
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
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
It's very hard for our parents who see us enter a world that they can't imagine. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
It's a tragedy, in a way, that Americans are brought up to think that they cannot feel for other people and other… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I'm very disappointed in Obama. I was very much in support of him in the beginning, but I cannot support war. I… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Creation is a sustained period of bliss, even though the subject can still be very sad. Because there's the triumph of coming… — 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
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
