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
Most damage that others do us is out of fear, humiliation and pain. Those feelings occur in all of us, not just… — 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 just think cities are unnatural, basically. I know there are people who live happily in them, and I have cities that… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I feel very happy to be living in Berkeley because there are a lot of people who are politically active here. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
This is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money and power and no… — 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
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
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
You have to give others the opportunity to love who you love. If they don't accept it, it's their loss. — 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
Can people who hunger so desperately for what other people have ever have enough? — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I think that all people who feel that there is injustice in the world anywhere should learn as much of it as… — 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
We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
As long as the people don't fear the truth, there is hope. For once they fear it, the one who tells it… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
It's an awful feeling to write something that you feel is really important... and to feel that you're being published by people… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
When I joined the freedom movement in Mississippi in my early 20s, it was to come to the aid of sharecroppers, like… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
In the summer of 1966, I went to Mississippi to be in the heart of the civil-rights movement, helping people who had… — 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
