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They be marching hand in hand, like going to war. By Alice Walker

It all I can do not to cry. I make myself wood I say to myself, Celie, you a tree. That's how I come to know trees fear man. By Alice Walker

Susannah was glad that, on principle, she rarely listened to men. Rarely believed, really, a word they said. No matter how much she might love them. By Alice Walker

I have fought and kicked and fasted and prayed and cursed and cried myself to the point of existing. By Alice Walker

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, also. By Alice Walker

No matter how hidden the cruelty, no matter how far off the screams of pain and terror, we live in one world. We are one people. By Alice Walker

My mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in. By Alice Walker

All her young life she has tried to please her father, never quite realizing that, as a girl, she never could. By 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. By Alice Walker

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. By Alice Walker

Freedom, after all, is like love: the more you give to others, the more you have. By Alice Walker

Animals can communicate quite well. And they do. And generally speaking, they are ignored By Alice Walker

I don't know who tried to teach him what to do in the bedroom, but it must have been a furniture salesman. By Alice Walker

Once us feel loved by God, us do the best us can to please him with what us like. By Alice Walker

Only dead people need loud music, you know. By Alice Walker

- 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 to me.- By Alice Walker

Anyhow, I say, the God I been praying and writing to is a man. And act just like all the other mens I know. Trifling, forgitful, and lowdown. By Alice Walker

I dead parting from them because in the short time we've been together they've been like family to me. Like family might have been, I mean. By Alice Walker

Why aren't you happy in America, if everyone there drives motorcars? By Alice Walker

She did not see why anyone should worry about her soul, even the people she marched with. "When it gives me trouble," she'd sneer, "I'll call y'all. By Alice Walker

How we come into this world, how we are ushered in, met, and hopefully embraced upon arrival, impacts the whole of our time on earth. By Alice Walker

Long as I can spell G-o-d I got somebody along. By 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 we all are. By Alice Walker

Every stitch i sew will be a kiss. By Alice Walker

Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul. By Alice Walker

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. By Alice Walker

It always making little surprises and springing them on us when us least expect. By Alice Walker

Writing poems is my way of celebrating with the world that I have not committed suicide the evening before. By Alice Walker

Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence. By Alice Walker

I have a collective sense of suffering. By Alice Walker

As I get older, I realize that the thing I value the most is good-heartednes s. By Alice Walker

Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness. By Alice Walker

Because I know. Grown-up white men don't want to pretend to be anything else. Not even for a minute. By Alice Walker

If a person is hit hard enough, even if she stands, she falls. By Alice Walker

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names. By Alice Walker

HELPED are those who laugh with a pure heart; theirs will be the company of the jolly righteous. By Alice Walker

There because of her brilliance but only tolerated because it was clear she was one, too, on whom true Ladyhood would never be conferred. By Alice Walker

Listen, God loves everything you love, and a mess of stuff you don't. By Alice Walker

You must run around like a crazy person or walk sedately honoring the dead. By Alice Walker

The Lord don't like ugly, she say. And he ain't stuck on pretty. By Alice Walker

She look me over from head to foot. Then she cackle. Sound like a death rattle. You sure is ugly, she say, like she ain't believed it. By Alice Walker

The animals of the planet are in desperate peril ... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen. By Alice Walker

We writers - we're the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape. By Alice Walker

The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate. By Alice Walker

Everything want to be loved. By Alice Walker

Everything want to be loved. Us sing and dance and holler, just trying to be loved. By Alice Walker

We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise. By Alice Walker

You can love yourself spiritually, physically-in almost any way that anybody else can. By Alice Walker

One thing that never ceases to amaze me, along with the growth of vegetation from the earth and of hair from the head, is the growth of understanding. By Alice Walker

We all have to start somewhere if us want to do better, an d out of self is what us have to hand By Alice Walker

A writer's heart, a poet's heart, an artist's heart, a musician's heart is always breaking. It is through that broken window that we see the world ... By Alice Walker

As we talked of freedom and justice one day for all, we sat down to steaks. I am eating misery, I thought, as I took the first bite. And spit it out. By Alice Walker

The only way to solace anyone who loved you in life is to be a good memory By Alice Walker

What's really hard is that you could care a lot for someone and not want to live with him anymore. By Alice Walker

You a low down dog is what's wrong. It's time to leave you and enter into the creation. And your dead body just the welcome mat I need. By Alice Walker

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow. By Alice Walker

Ignorance, arrogance, and racism have bloomed as Superior Knowledge in all too many universities. By Alice Walker

Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly. By Alice Walker

Who am I to tell her who to love? My job just to love her good and true myself. P. 237 By Alice Walker

Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors. By Alice Walker

As others might prepare for an exam whose subject matter is unknown to them, so I must study, cram, for every conversation with my folks. By Alice Walker

World wars have been fought and lost; for every war is against the world and every war against the world is lost. By Alice Walker

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it. By Alice Walker

Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me. By Alice Walker

Let 'im hear me, I say. If he ever listened to poor colored women the world would be a different place, I can tell you. By Alice Walker

All he think about since us married is how to make me mind. He don't want a wife, he want a dog. (Walker 2000: 58) By Alice Walker

I'm tri-racial: African-American, Native American and Euro - that's the Scotch-Irish part. By Alice Walker

You know Shug will fight, he say. Just like Sofia. She bound to live her life and be herself no matter what. By Alice Walker

Can't you see I'm already half dead. By Alice Walker

I've found, in my own writing, that a little hatred, keenly directed, is a useful thing. By Alice Walker

There are thousands of Palestinians in prison virtually for no reason. By Alice Walker

This is the true wine of astonishment: We are not over when we think we are. By Alice Walker

Once you feel loved by the universe, you're already accepted, and you're not really concerned about offending people. By Alice Walker

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. By Alice Walker

One good thing bout the way he never do any work round the place, us never miss him when he gone. By Alice Walker

We will be ourselves and free, or die in the attempt. Harriet Tubman was not our great-grandmother for nothing. By Alice Walker

Animals were not made for us, or our use. They have their own use, which is just being who they are. By Alice Walker

I have the uncanny feeling that, just at the end of my life, I am beginning to reinhabit completely the body I long ago left. By Alice Walker

Surely the earth can be saved by all the people who insist on love. By Alice Walker

Anything we love can be saved. By Alice Walker

All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world. By Alice Walker

The brilliance of enslaving the spirit is that it is an invisible prison from which the inmate appears to derive some comfort. By Alice Walker

I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire and enjoy it; that's my religion. By Alice Walker

Subservience of any kind is death to the spirit. By Alice Walker

Love is big; love can hold anger, love can even hold hatred. It's about the intention of what you want it to do. By Alice Walker

We'll, you know how nigger is. Can't nobody tell 'em nothing even today. Can't be rule. Every nigger you see got a kingdom in his head. By Alice Walker

Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week. By Alice Walker

I feel very happy to be living in Berkeley because there are a lot of people who are politically active here. By Alice Walker

Even as I hold you, I am letting you go. By Alice Walker

I am not convinced that men and women were ever meant to share the same house, though some people can do it beautifully. By Alice Walker

Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself. By Alice Walker

Activism is my rent for living on the planet. By Alice Walker

Activism is the rent I pay for living on this planet. By Alice Walker

God is inside you and inside everybody else. You come into the world with God. But only them that search for it inside find it. By Alice Walker

I think all documentaries leave out areas of people's lives. Which is good. There are areas that need not be explored. By Alice Walker

Becauseyou rubbed my shoulderlast nighta poemtraveled downmy arm. By Alice Walker

On entering a place where animals are bred, my first thoughts are always about enslavement. Force. Captivity. By Alice Walker

Some colored people so scared of whitefolks they claim to love the cotton gin. By Alice Walker

I cannot claim to have had a hard time publishing. By Alice Walker

If you're silent for a long time, people just arrive in your mind. By Alice Walker

The world is changing. It is no longer a world just for boys and men By Alice Walker

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. By Alice Walker

War will stop when we no longer praise it, or give it any attention at all. Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited. By Alice Walker

Whoever he is, he is not worth all this.And I will neverunclench my teeth long enoughto tell him so. By Alice Walker

My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it. By Alice Walker

I never have an intended audience. I just write, you know. By Alice Walker

For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended. By Alice Walker

Just because I don't harass it like some peoples us know don't mean I ain't got religion. By Alice Walker

She can have them, Mama, she said, like somebody used to never winning anything, or having anything reserved for her. By Alice Walker

First time I got the full sight of Shug Avery long black body with it black plum nipples, look like her mouth, I thought I had turned into a man By Alice Walker

People who work hard often work too hard ... May we learn to honor the hammock, the siesta, the nap and the pause in all its forms. By Alice Walker

I love his dear eyes in which the vulnerability and beauty of his soul can be plainly read. By Alice Walker

I am so happy. I got love, I got work, I got money, friends and time. By Alice Walker

I live a very secluded life, a very contemplative life and a very meditative one. That is my ideal life. By Alice Walker

I think 'The Color Purple' is so bursting with love, the need for connection, the showing of the need for connection around the globe. By Alice Walker

Dear Nettie, I don't write to God no more, I write to you. By Alice Walker

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

It's better to have your blackness taken away than to stand there and lie about who you actually are. That's the trap. By Alice Walker

Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us. By Alice Walker

It is crucial that young people are taught sustainable child production and rearing. By Alice Walker

When life descends into the pitI must become my own candleWillingly burning my selfTo light up the darkness around me. By Alice Walker

The endis comingyesterdayit washere too. By Alice Walker

You know a little drink now and then never hurt nobody, but when you can't git started without asking the bottle, you in trouble. By Alice Walker

I try to teach my heart not to want things it can't have. By Alice Walker

But if by some miracle and all our struggle, the earth is spared, only justice to every living being will save humankind. By Alice Walker

Do notbelikecowsgrazingwatchingthebutcher. By Alice Walker

Too much respect for people who are not respectful to you is a sure sign of insecurity. By Alice Walker

I believe you mother everybody, not in a cloying, hovering way, but taking care of what is around you. By Alice Walker

Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar. By Alice Walker

The crushed teapot in the rubbish of the bulldozed house will sing in your ears forever. By Alice Walker

Dear God ... I have always been a good girl. Maybe you can give me a sign letting me know what is happening to me. By Alice Walker

Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared. By Alice Walker

I am not lesbian, I am not bisexual, I am not straight. I am just curious By Alice Walker

Every time I conjure up a rock, I throw it. By Alice Walker

HELPED are those who lose their fear of death; theirs is the power to envision the future in a blade of grass. By Alice Walker

We have to wake up. We have to refuse to be a clone. By Alice Walker

I have such respect for 'Democracy Now!' By Alice Walker

Sofia the kind of woman no matter what she have in her hand she make it look like a weapon. By Alice Walker

When the ax came into the forest the trees said the handle is one of us. By Alice Walker

I see children, all children, as humanity's most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left. By Alice Walker

People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back. By Alice Walker

My God is not a religious God. My God is nature, my God is everything there is. That's God. Everything is God. I'm a child of that. By Alice Walker

In truth, it made me pity him, and see him as a fool. By Alice Walker

breaking the heart opens it. By Alice Walker

What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears. By Alice Walker

To know is to exist; to exist is to be involved, to move about, to see the world with my own eyes. By Alice Walker

Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge. By Alice Walker

For instance: scorpions, vipers, and yellow jackets in paradise? How to accept gracefully the part of GOD that stings! By Alice Walker

THEY CANNOT KILL US, BECAUSE WITHOUT US THEY DIE. By Alice Walker

Keep in mind always the present you are constructing. It should be the future you want. By Alice Walker

One crying child is the rotten apple in the barrel of the tribe! By Alice Walker

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. That is our duty. By Alice Walker

We must begin seeing other creatures as equal. Existence makes us all equal. By Alice Walker

Some people don't understand that it is the nature of the eye to have seen forever, and the nature of the mind to recall anything that was ever known. By Alice Walker

Be an outcast. Be pleased to walk alone. By Alice Walker

Decide that you know what you think is good for you and go ahead and do it. By Alice Walker

June a good time to go off into the world By Alice Walker

Healing begins where the wound was made. By Alice Walker

she say her head feel like its full of little white men with hammers. By Alice Walker

My heart must be young and fresh though, it feel like it blooming blood. By Alice Walker

It is the need to be remembered that has caused most of the trouble in the world, By Alice Walker

Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet. By Alice Walker

When wehave changed everything we will eat congratulations with our tea. By Alice Walker

You cannot see the changes that you're dreaming about, because they're internal. By Alice Walker

Time moves slowly, but passes quickly. By Alice Walker

Peace: the fruit of justice done especially to the Self. By Alice Walker

Artists have a responsibility to speak and to act when governments fail, and if we don't do that, we really deserve the world we get. By Alice Walker

There was no sympathy for struggle that ended in defeat. Which meant there was no sympathy for struggle itself - only for winning. By Alice Walker

Criticism is painful when it's not done with love. By Alice Walker

She thought of how precious it was to be able to know another person over many years. There was incomparable richness in it. By Alice Walker

Hope to sin only in the service of waking up. By Alice Walker

Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home. By Alice Walker

David Icke reminded me of Malcolm X. By Alice Walker

Being happy is not the only happiness. By Alice Walker

My family was a poor farming family, and we lived under absolute segregation. By Alice Walker

Dear God. Dear stars, dear trees, dear sky, dear peoples. Dear Everything. Dear God. By Alice Walker

She look like she ain't long for this world but dressed well for the next. By Alice Walker

Human compassion is equal to human cruelty, and it is up to each of us to tip the balance. By Alice Walker

The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?' By Alice Walker

She thinks her sister has held life always in the palm of one hand, that "no" is a word the world never learned to say to her. By Alice Walker

Wish for nothing larger Than your own small heart. By Alice Walker

I'm the most stubborn person I know. By Alice Walker

Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership. By Alice Walker

The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior. By Alice Walker

Why do tired people sing? By Alice Walker

I'm not being disrespectful of the medium; it's just not as important as the work that I actually do [books]. By Alice Walker

She say, Nothing but death can keep me from it. She never write. By Alice Walker

They were assumed, like women and cats, to have no souls. By Alice Walker

As long as the Earth can make a spring every year, I can. By Alice Walker

Can people who hunger so desperately for what other people have ever have enough? By Alice Walker

I believe that the truth of any subject only comes when all sides of the story are put together. By Alice Walker

There was a saying among the Mundo: It takes only one lie to unravel the world. By Alice Walker

I could never live happily in Africa-or anywhere else-until I could live freely in Mississippi. By Alice Walker

There could be no happy community in which there was one unhappy child. By Alice Walker

You don't always have to be doing something. You can just be, and that's plenty. By Alice Walker

When I was a child I read books for entertainment and information; I now think of books as lifeboats. By Alice Walker

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

Her senior thesis was based on the notion that no one should be allowed to own more land than could be worked in a day, by hand. By Alice Walker

Every soul is to be cherished, every flower is to bloom. By Alice Walker

But it ain't easy, trying to do without God even if you know he ain't there, trying to do without him is a strain By Alice Walker

Until you do right by me, I say, everything you even dream about will fail. By Alice Walker

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

Why any woman give a shit what people think is a mystery to me. By Alice Walker

In search of my mother's garden, I found my own. By Alice Walker

I'm for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing. By Alice Walker

And to me, wildness means following the growth of love. Like a plant reaching through stone toward the sun- By Alice Walker

Horses make a landscape look beautiful. By Alice Walker

I'm still living at least five parallel lives, honestly! I wonder about it. I have no idea how that happens. By Alice Walker

Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender. By Alice Walker

The artist ... is the voice of the people. By Alice Walker

She look so stylish it like the trees all round the house draw themself up tall for a better look. By Alice Walker

Not everyone's life is what they make it. Some people's life is what other people make it. By Alice Walker

One child must never be set above another, even in casual conversation, not to mention in speeches that circle the globe. By Alice Walker

I never talk about my next project. By Alice Walker

My parents were both storytellers. They always spoke with metaphorical richness. By Alice Walker

Women have to summon courage to fulfill dormant dreams. By Alice Walker

Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams. By Alice Walker

Poetry, I have discovered, is always unexpected and always as faithful and honest as dreams. By Alice Walker

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

Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future. By Alice Walker

Eventually I knew what hair wanted; it wanted to be itself ... to be left alone by anyone, including me, who did not love it as it was. By Alice Walker

You can't truly have an open heart until it's been broken. By Alice Walker

Propaganda is amazing. People can be led to believe anything. By Alice Walker

There's something in all of us that wants a medal for what we have done. That wants to be appreciated. By Alice Walker

'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding. By Alice Walker

How anyone cannot see that Nature is God is amazing to me: that they'd rather worship something that can only exist, really, in their own minds. By Alice Walker

Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it's a good place that we're all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it. By Alice Walker

I'm not lesbian; I'm not bisexual; I'm not straight. I'm just curious. By Alice Walker

It is natural to want to have a future. By Alice Walker

Those in power must spend a lot of their time laughing at us. By Alice Walker

I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you. By Alice Walker

Nature has created us with the capacity to know God, to experience God. By Alice Walker

The long-term accommodation that protects marriage and other such relationships is ... forgetfulness. By Alice Walker

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart. By Alice Walker

I don't generally read reviews. By Alice Walker

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. By Alice Walker

There is no graceful way to carry hatred. By Alice Walker

My heart hurt so much I can't believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this? By Alice Walker

From infancy, I have relied on the fiercely sweet spirits of black men; and this is abundantly clear in my work. By Alice Walker

I cry so much less than I used to. I used to be one of the most teary people. By Alice Walker

Drew Dellinger is a deep and courageous poet. How lucky we are! By Alice Walker

It just seems clear to me that as long as we are all here, it's pretty clear that the struggle is to share the planet, rather than divide it. By Alice Walker

Any God I ever found in church, I brought in myself. By Alice Walker

I'm pore, I'm black, I may be ugly and can't cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I'm here. By Alice Walker

If she come, I be happy. If she don't, I be content. By Alice Walker

I don't have this feeling that 70 is really old. By Alice Walker

HELPED are those who are shown the existence of the Creator's magic in the Universe; they shall experience delight and astonishment without ceasing. By Alice Walker

My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig. By Alice Walker

The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout. By Alice Walker

If you lie to yourself about your own pain, you will be killed by those who will claim you enjoyed it. By Alice Walker

So many killings of black men in my lifetime. The physical shock is astounding. By Alice Walker

In nature, nothing is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways and they're still beautiful. By Alice Walker

I think America has always been polarized. By Alice Walker

But I don't know how to fight. All I know how to do is stay alive. By Alice Walker

What isa promiseifnotyourhandin mine? By Alice Walker

In every life there comes a point when you have to make a decision about how you will live. By Alice Walker

Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister. By Alice Walker

This is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money and power and no empathy. By Alice Walker

From paradise to paradise I go sweeping; collecting rocks & views; owning nothing but what I feel. By Alice Walker

If you was my wife, she say, I'd cover you up with kisses stead of licks, and work hard for you too. By Alice Walker

Only the sky above us do we hold in common. By Alice Walker

Some people are painters, and some are ballet dancers, and I'm a writer. By Alice Walker

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. By Alice Walker

And I thank God let me gain understanding enough to know love can't be halted just cause some peoples moan and groan. P.238 By Alice Walker

I'm mad about the waste that happens when people who love each other can't even bring themselves to talk. By Alice Walker

I'm the kind of woman that likes to enjoy herselves in peace. By Alice Walker

I've always felt quite singular, even as a child. That I must stay on track to keep my purpose. By Alice Walker

My interest in creating anything is that it be useful. By Alice Walker

I don't know if I've ever cared much what others think. By Alice Walker

All womens not alike, Tobias, she say. Believe it or not.Oh, I believe it, he say. Just can't prove it to the world. By Alice Walker

A burnt finger remember the fire. By Alice Walker

I can spend two hours grubbing about in my garden, dazed with pleasure and intent, and it feels like five minutes. By Alice Walker

Books became my world because the world I was in was very hard. By Alice Walker

Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate. By Alice Walker

I don't know if you actually get something out of writing poetry. I think poetry is an autonomous muse that decides to come and sit on your couch. By Alice Walker

Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. By Alice Walker

Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof. By Alice Walker

You know, one race will not be a survivor if the other one dies, and that's something that we should think about. By Alice Walker

Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming. By Alice Walker

What a burden to think one is conceived in sin rather than in pleasure; that one is born into evil rather than into joy. By Alice Walker

My parents taught me service - not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family. By Alice Walker

A little love, a little buckshot, that's how I'd say handle yourself. By Alice Walker

Young womens no good these days, he say. Got they legs open to every Tom, Dick and Harry. By Alice Walker

Israel is guilty of apartheid and persecution of the Palestinian people, both inside Israel and also in the Occupied Territories. By Alice Walker

It's very hard for our parents who see us enter a world that they can't imagine. By Alice Walker

You know how big love is? Love is big. love can hold anger; love can even hold hatred. By Alice Walker

Her eyes serious tho. Sad some. By Alice Walker

This life soon be over, I say. Heaven last all ways. You ought to bash Mr. _ head open, she say. Think bout heaven later. By Alice Walker

A grown child is a dangerous thing. By Alice Walker

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 of my ability, the young. By Alice Walker

Sucking up to the biggies won't get us anywhere. By Alice Walker

We should not look down on our first ancestors. By Alice Walker

Even now, I find that no matter what has happened, I still have that trust. I have a lot of trust, that people can be better than they are. By Alice Walker

Why should the killers of the world be "the future" and not us? By Alice Walker

My life is not to be somebody else's impact - you know what I mean? By Alice Walker

She sicker than my mama was when she die. But she more evil than my mama and that keep her alive. By Alice Walker

Oh, Celie, unbelief is a terrible thing. And so is the hurt we cause others unknowingly. By Alice Walker

I love the women's movement, and I never thought of it as belonging to any particular segment of the population. By Alice Walker

The more I wonder, the more I love. By Alice Walker

Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be. By Alice Walker

Without money of one's own in a capitalist society, there is no such thing as independence. By Alice Walker

Can you handle it? ast Shug. How I'm gon keep from killing him, I say. By Alice Walker

Artists are messengers whose responsibility is to unite the world a faith that will lead not to destruction but to transformation. By Alice Walker

Choosesomeoneto lovewhowouldn't evenhearof it. By Alice Walker

The three wealthiest people in the world own more than the GDP of forty-eight countries! By Alice Walker

I don't feel I've had a decent critic ever on the East coast. By Alice Walker

It's not possible to stop love. By Alice Walker

It is this broken road with pitfalls and sharp turns and unexpected traverses that has brought me joy and adventure. By Alice Walker

You have to give others the opportunity to love who you love. If they don't accept it, it's their loss. By Alice Walker

Like I said...fine with me. By Alice Walker

Tashi knows she is learning a way of life she will never live. By Alice Walker

{T}here is a point at which even grief feels absurd. And at this point, laughter gushes up to retrieve sanity. By Alice Walker

What you hope for, you also fear. By Alice Walker

I feel peace with the world. By Alice Walker

His little whistle sound like it lost way down a jar, and the jar in the bottom of the creek. P. 64 By Alice Walker

I write not only what I want to read ... I write all the things I should have been able to read. By Alice Walker

I realized I was a country person - I'm just not used to small spaces. By Alice Walker

I wish you were with me, or I with you. By Alice Walker

It must become a right of every person to die of old age. And if we secure this right for ourselves, we can, coincidentally, assure it for the planet. By Alice Walker

I don't know nothing, I think. And glad of it. By Alice Walker

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 stories. By Alice Walker

Writing permits me to be more than I am. Writing permits me to experience life as any number of strange creations. By Alice Walker

Can anything be more boring than an upper-class Englishman? By Alice Walker

He never says anything off the top of his head By Alice Walker

If you deny people their own voice, you'll have no idea of who they were. By Alice Walker

Meditation has been a loyal friend to me. It has helped me write my books. By Alice Walker

In my opinion and experience, imperialists of all nations and races will tell us anything to keep us fighting. For them. By Alice Walker

I can't fix my mouth to say how I feel. By Alice Walker

I was brought up to try to see what was wrong and right it. Since I am a writer, writing is how I right it. By Alice Walker

I start each book when it's ready and never before. By Alice Walker

You bring children into the world. You love them with heart and soul. By Alice Walker

Some writers sit down without a thought of what they are going to say, and they go through draft after draft. By Alice Walker

There is so much we don't understand. And so much unhappiness that comes because of that. By Alice Walker

Healing cannot be done by settling a score. By Alice Walker

Progress' affects few. Only revolution can affect many. By Alice Walker

Our mothers and grandmothers ... moving to music not yet written. By Alice Walker

I try to teach my heart not to want nothing it can't have By Alice Walker

HELPED are those whose every act is a prayer for peace; on them depends the future of the world. By Alice Walker

The protection of evil must be the most self-destructive job. By Alice Walker

She saw poetry where other writers merely saw failure to cope with English. By Alice Walker

My fantasy life. Without it I'm afraid to exist. By Alice Walker

It is as if my self is hiding behind an iron door. By Alice Walker

That was the beginning of her abstraction. By Alice Walker

Abortion is an act of self-defense. By Alice Walker

Some people think politeness is an invitation to invade. By Alice Walker

Curiosity is my natural state and has led me headlong into every worthwhile experience (never mind the others) I have ever had. By Alice Walker

the God of woman is autonomy By Alice Walker

It is important to remember yourself. By Alice Walker

Part of my ancestry is Cherokee. And in that tradition, you become an adult when you're 52. By Alice Walker

There's an ecstatic side to writing. It's like jazz. It just has a life. By Alice Walker

Love likes to extend itself. If you receive it in a book - or however you get it - then your duty is to extend it beyond. By Alice Walker

I have never felt that the one thing that I am 'known for' is what I am. By Alice Walker

I deeply regret any harm, or any perceived harm, that I may have done to anyone by any behaviour of mine. By Alice Walker

Not only will your teachers appear, but they will cook new foods for you. By Alice Walker

Allowing freedom to others brings freedom to ourselves. By Alice Walker

People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools. By Alice Walker

I think war is so incredibly backward, and I don't think it's intelligent, and it's not sane. So why would you want to support it? By Alice Walker

Two old fools left over from love By Alice Walker

Resistance is the secret of joy! By Alice Walker

I think the War on Terror is really absurd, especially coming from a country that is founded on terrorism. By Alice Walker

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 a poet who got into writing novels. By Alice Walker

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any. By Alice Walker

I know what I'm thinking bout, I think. Nothing. And as much of it as I can. By Alice Walker

Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself. By Alice Walker

I'm sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power. By Alice Walker

I do not grieve in the abstract, but in the heart. By Alice Walker

I believe people exist to be enjoyed. By Alice Walker

Happiness was just a trick in your case. By Alice Walker

Writing about people helps us to understand them, and understanding them helps us to accept them as part of ourselves. By Alice Walker

We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier. By Alice Walker

I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder. By Alice Walker

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

I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply; it's almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves. By Alice Walker

The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account. By Alice Walker

I love the natural world - it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved. By Alice Walker

I prefer to praise people and the world rather than criticize them and it. By Alice Walker

There is a special grief felt by the children and grandchildren of those who were forbidden to read, forbidden to question or to know. By Alice Walker

Fear is real, but so is love. By Alice Walker

Just cause I love her don't take away none of her rights. By Alice Walker

How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns. By Alice Walker

Nobody has ever convinced me that race is real. By Alice Walker