Alice Walker

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

Just be what it is that you are, and that is just fine. You don't have to be what you're not in…

— Alice Walker

“Remember this-- say it & know it is true: Alice loves me Alice loves me and I am not blamed for this.…

— Alice Walker

“Only the sky above us do we hold in common.”

— Alice Walker

“Why aren't you happy in America, if everyone there drives motorcars?”

— Alice Walker

“She saw poetry where other writers merely saw failure to cope with English.”

— Alice Walker

My mother had handed down respect for the possibilities...and the will to grasp them.

— Alice Walker

Helped are those who are content to be themselves; they will never lack mystery in their lives and the joys of self-discovery…

— Alice Walker

“As others might prepare for an exam whose subject matter is unknown to them, so I must study, cram, for every conversation…

— Alice Walker

The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.

— Alice Walker

My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father's head. It taught me about…

— Alice Walker

Many readers fail to realize this, but 'The Color Purple' is a theological text. It is about the reclamation of one's original…

— Alice Walker

The good news may be that Nature is phasing out the white man, but the bad news is that's who She thinks…

— Alice Walker

Humans - whatever billions we are - we don't have the control. We are considered expendable, basically.

— Alice Walker

All my life I had to fight. I had to fight my daddy. I had to fight my uncles. I had to…

— Alice Walker

Well, capitalism is a big problem, because with capitalism you're just going to keep buying and selling things until there's nothing else…

— Alice Walker

When I was 18, I went to the Soviet Union. I kept hearing that America was planning to bomb them - lots…

— Alice Walker

Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited.

— Alice Walker

The dropping of bombs on people - isn't that terrorism?

— Alice Walker

Aside from the fact that they say it's unhealthy, my fat ain't never been no trouble. Mens always have loved me. My…

— Alice Walker

I'm very disappointed in Barack Obama. I was very much in support of him in the beginning, but I cannot support war.…

— Alice Walker

The fact is that when you do something from your heart, you leave a heart print.

— Alice Walker

“I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.' 'What…

— Alice Walker

I just feel that 'The Color Purple,' which was my 10th book, was a true gift from my ancestors.

— Alice Walker

“A little love, a little buckshot, that's how I'd say handle yourself.”

— Alice Walker