Writing poems is my way of celebrating with the world that I have not committed suicide the evening before. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
To know is to exist; to exist is to be involved, to move about, to see the world with my own eyes. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
We writers - we're the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I prefer to praise people and the world rather than criticize them and it. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Artists have a responsibility to speak and to act when governments fail, and if we don't do that, we really deserve the… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“She got a right to look over the world in whatever company she choose. Just cause I love her don't take away… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. People… — 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
We're going to have to debunk the myth that Africa is a heaven for black people -- especially black women. We've been… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
no person is your friend (or kin) who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow and be perceived as fully… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I can easily imagine Obama sitting down and talking to any leader - or any person - in the world, with no… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over 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
As for those who think the Arab world promises freedom, the briefest study of its routine traditional treatment of blacks (slavery) and… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I think I've actually returned to a kind of realism about how the world works. That's helpful. Because in a way, no… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I think that wealthy white people would like to have a country that resembles the Fifties, when all the minorities were tucked… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
God is inside you and inside everybody else. You come into the world with God. But only them that search for it… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
During my years of being close to people engaged in changing the world I have seen fear turn into courage. Sorrow into… — 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
I'm not [a Buddhist]. The whole point of anything that is really, truly valuable to your soul, and your own growth, is… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
It has become a common feeling, I believe, as we have watched our heroes falling over the years, that our own small… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Artists are messengers whose responsibility is to unite the world -- a faith that will lead not to destruction but to transformation. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
If we want to fight people in the world, we should fight them with pillows - pillows stuffed with food, medicine, music...… — 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
It's very hard for our parents who see us enter a world that they can't imagine. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
My ancestors make up the skin of the world. That's who that is. That's what that is. That's us. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
No matter how hidden the cruelty, no matter how far off the screams of pain and terror, we live in one world.… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I love the natural world - it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?' — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
the world has changed: it did not change without your prayers without your faith without your determination to believe in liberation and… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
A writer's heart, a poet's heart, an artist's heart, a musician's heart is always breaking. It is through that broken window that… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
The harm that you do to others is the harm that you do to yourself and you cannot think then that you… — 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
![“I'm not [a Buddhist]. The whole point of anything that is really, truly valuable to your soul, and your own growth, is not to attach to a teacher, but rather to find out what the real deal is in the world itself. You become your own guide. The teachings can help you, but really, we're all here…” quote by Alice Walker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c54/alice-walker-347_buddhism_i-m-not-a-buddhist-the-whole-point-of-an_1695274.jpg)
