All Alice Walker Quotes
- 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… All
- Writing about people helps us to understand them, and understanding them helps us to accept them as part of ourselves. Accept
- During my years of being close to people engaged in changing the world I have seen fear turn into courage. Sorrow into joy. Funerals into… Believe
- Every soul is to be cherished, every flower is to bloom. Bloom
- Guided by my heritage of a love of beauty and a respect for strength - in search of my mother's garden, I found my own. Beauty
- Creation is a sustained period of bliss. Bliss
- No song or poem will bear my mother's name. Yet so many of the stories that I write, that we all write, are my mother's… All
- Women have to summon courage to fulfill dormant dreams. Courage
- Be an outcast. Be pleased to walk alone. Alone
- In the far upper corner of my altar is a photo of Joan Crawford in her most fierce Mommy Dearest mode, just to remind me… Altar
- Creation is a sustained period of bliss, even though the subject can still be very sad. Because there's the triumph of coming through and understanding… Bliss
- I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit.… Anywhere
- You can love yourself spiritually, physically-in almost any way that anybody else can. Accepting
- 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. Live… Any
- If you want to have a life that is worth living, a life that expresses your deepest feelings and emotions, and cares and dreams, you… Care
- I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder. Foundation
- As for those who think the Arab world promises freedom, the briefest study of its routine traditional treatment of blacks (slavery) and women (purdah) will… All
- Always with me was the inner twin: my true nature, my true self. It is timeless, free, compassionate and in love with whatever is natural… Compassionate
- Human compassion is equal to human cruelty, and it is up to each of us to tip the balance. Balance
- This life soon be over, I say. Heaven last all ways. All
- I don't know nothing, I think. And glad of it. Glad
- ... my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in. Adorned
- Just because I don't harass it like some peoples us know don't mean I ain't got religion. Got Religion
- I know what I'm thinking bout, I think. Nothing. And as much of it as I can. Bout
- The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves. Crime