You can love yourself spiritually, physically-in almost any way that anybody else can. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
The only way to solace anyone who loved you in life is to be a good memory — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Writing poems is my way of celebrating with the world that I have not committed suicide the evening before. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
In each of us, there is a little voice that knows exactly which way to go. And I learned very early to… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
As far as a glass ceiling, I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts… — 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… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts the universe has given you. And… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
To acknowledge our ancestors means we are aware that we did not make ourselves, that the line stretches all the way back,… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
At one point I learned transcendental meditation. This was 30-something years ago. It took me back to the way that I naturally… — 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
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
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
If you don't have the ability or encouragement to use yourself in a physical way, you could become just another talking head.… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I want something else; a different system entirely. One not seen on this earth for thousands of years. If ever. Democratic Womanism.… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
What I am really interested in is that I want people to be thinking in other ways - to stop thinking they… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I believe you mother everybody, not in a cloying, hovering way, but taking care of what is around you. — 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 we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily… — 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
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
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
Storytelling is how we survive, when there's no feed, the story feeds something, it feeds the spirit, the imagination. I can't imagine… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
You are saying, are you not, I said to Manuelito, that stories have more room in them than ideas? [...] He laughed.… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you. So, the best… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I am an expression of the divine, just like a peach is, just like a fish is. I have a right to… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Now there are heavy houses everywhere and more of them are being built. In fact, it is only when more houses are… — 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
![“You are saying, are you not, I said to Manuelito, that stories have more room in them than ideas? [...] He laughed. That is correct, Señor. It is as if ideas are made of blocks. Rigid and hard. And stories are made of a gauze that is elastic. You can almost see through it, so what is beyond is…” quote by Alice Walker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a65/alice-walker-347_block_you-are-saying-are-you-not-i-said-to-man_2970096.jpg)
