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
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
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
It's very hard for our parents who see us enter a world that they can't imagine. — 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
Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly. — 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
All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world. — 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
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
The Animals of the planet are in desperate peril and they are fully aware of this. No less than human beings are… — 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
How we come into this world, how we are ushered in, met, and hopefully embraced upon arrival, impacts the whole of our… — 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
Listen, God love everything you love - and a mess of stuff you don't. But more than anything else, God love admiration.… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
My activism really is for myself, because I see places in the world where I feel I should be. If there is… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
You bring children into the world. You love them with heart and soul. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put - without delay, and with tenderness -… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?' — 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
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
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