All Alice Walker Quotes
- Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams. Courage
- A people do not throw their geniuses away. And if they are thrown away, it is our duty as artists and as witnesses for the… Artists
- You bring children into the world. You love them with heart and soul. Bring
- When I was 18, I went to the Soviet Union. I kept hearing that America was planning to bomb them - lots of bombs were… America
- This is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money and power and no empathy. Completely
- I know black people love the idea that we finally have a beautiful, good-looking black president. But if he is doing awful things to us,… Awful
- I cannot claim to have had a hard time publishing. Cannot Claim
- Nobody has ever convinced me that race is real. Convinced
- It is important to remember yourself. Important
- We should not look down on our first ancestors. Ancestors
- Some writers sit down without a thought of what they are going to say, and they go through draft after draft. Down
- I understood at a very early age that in nature, I felt everything I should feel in church but never did. Walking in the woods,… Age
- At Sarah Lawrence, I realized that everybody was already what they were going to be. The painters were painting, the writers writing, the dancers dancing.… Any
- The fact is that when you do something from your heart, you leave a heart print. Fact
- If we want to fight people in the world, we should fight them with pillows - pillows stuffed with food, medicine, music... That would be… Bombs
- I never have an intended audience. I just write, you know. Audience
- You know how big love is? Love is big. love can hold anger; love can even hold hatred. Anger
- Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer… Beings
- June Jordan, who died of cancer in 2002, was a brilliant, fierce, radical, and frequently furious poet. We were friends for thirty years. Not once… Adored
- My interest in creating anything is that it be useful. Creating
- I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you. Been
- I live a very secluded life, a very contemplative life and a very meditative one. That is my ideal life. Contemplative
- We must begin seeing other creatures as equal. Existence makes us all equal. All
- I never talk about my next project. Never Talk
- Since the time of the witch burnings, the grandmothers and the healers and the midwives have been systematically targeted. And burned at the stake for… Been