Quotes by Alice Walker
Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.
We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that's going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.
There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through any spiritual or moral or physical devastation.
My life is not to be somebody else's impact - you know what I mean?
The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn't want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass.
America is not nearly done. We're only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows... what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants - if they survive that long - will see.
Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.
It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.
The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'
Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
It seems our fate to be incorrect (look where we live, for example), and in our incorrectness stand.
I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.
I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.
I'm always amazed that people will actually choose to sit in front of the television and just be savaged by stuff that belittles their intelligence.
In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.
The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.
Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.
People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.
The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.
The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.
Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.
For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.
All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.
Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.
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.
