All Alice Walker Quotes
- We have to wake up. We have to refuse to be a clone. Clone
- I live on the West Coast of the United States, and yet the air that I breathe is sometimes the same air that was being… Air
- It is crucial that young people are taught sustainable child production and rearing. Child
- I consider the fact that thousands of children die each day from starvation and a lack of medicine a crisis for humanity and a problem… Attempt
- I think that all people who feel that there is injustice in the world anywhere should learn as much of it as they can bear.… All
- One of the triumphs of the Civil Rights Movement is that when you travel through the South today, you do not feel overwhelmed by a… Civil
- I see myself in all the people in the world who are suffering and who are very badly treated and who are often made to… All
- My family was a poor farming family, and we lived under absolute segregation. Absolute
- There are thousands of Palestinians in prison virtually for no reason. Palestinians
- I continue to care for President Obama and for his family. I think that in many ways they are very courageous people, and I honor… America
- I think Americans generally are not used to working very hard, in terms of working for the collective. I think in our country we have… American
- Most damage that others do us is out of fear, humiliation and pain. Those feelings occur in all of us, not just in those of… All
- We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise. Adversaries
- One child must never be set above another, even in casual conversation, not to mention in speeches that circle the globe. Another Even
- We must do everything in our power to cease the behaviour that makes children everywhere feel afraid. Afraid
- I made my first white women friends in college; they loved me and were loyal to our friendship, but I understood, as they did, that… College
- I can easily imagine Obama sitting down and talking to any leader - or any person - in the world, with no baggage of past… Any
- I met Howard Zinn in 1961, my first year at Spelman College in Atlanta. He was the tall, rangy, good-looking professor that many of the… Atlanta
- Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it,… Clearly
- So many killings of black men in my lifetime. The physical shock is astounding. Astounding
- I deeply regret any harm, or any perceived harm, that I may have done to anyone by any behaviour of mine. Any
- My mother had bought a sewing machine for me. When I went away to college, she gave me a sewing machine, a typewriter and a… Bought
- I prefer to praise people and the world rather than criticize them and it. Criticize
- My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig. Crawling
- Even with all of the things that are so awful, if you walk into your yard and stay there looking at almost anything for five… All