When I was 18, I went to the Soviet Union. I kept hearing that America was planning to bomb them - lots… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house their country bombed in… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
At Sarah Lawrence, I realized that everybody was already what they were going to be. The painters were painting, the writers writing,… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I made my first white women friends in college; they loved me and were loyal to our friendship, but I understood, as… — 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
My parents were both storytellers. They always spoke with metaphorical richness. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
For me, I used to be shy towards journalism because it wasn't poetry. And then I realized that the events that I… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
If you deny people their own voice, you'll have no idea of who they were. — 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
