All Alice Walker Quotes
- Horses make a landscape look beautiful. Beautiful
- Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly. Fiction
- I'm the most stubborn person I know. Inspirational
- The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?' Child
- I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America's really large shadow and that's not all that bad. All
- My life is not to be somebody else's impact - you know what I mean? Impact
- The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account. Account
- The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior. Ability
- Well, capitalism is a big problem, because with capitalism you're just going to keep buying and selling things until there's nothing else to buy and… Big
- As an elder of the Americas and of the rest of the planet, it is my responsibility to care for and protect, to the best… Ability
- It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's 'mature' critics often are. Adult
- As you know from school, it's when you have not prepared for the test that you have the fear of failing. And if you have… Best
- I feel very happy to be living in Berkeley because there are a lot of people who are politically active here. Active
- I have never felt that the one thing that I am 'known for' is what I am. Felt
- I love the natural world - it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved. Culture
- I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply; it's almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves. Almost Unbearable
- I realized I was a country person - I'm just not used to small spaces. Country
- I started out as a poet. I've always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be fundamentally… Been
- I'm for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing. Choosing
- I'm sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power. American
- Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home. Except
- Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors. English
- The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate. Any
- The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout. Always Die
- You know, one race will not be a survivor if the other one dies, and that's something that we should think about. Dies