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.
Alice WalkerI think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.
Alice WalkerHow sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.
Alice WalkerThe animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.
Alice WalkerWar is a dead end, literally. And, what is more, we simply can't afford it. Not morally, and not financially. How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house their country bombed in Iraq is the same one they were living in until it was foreclosed?
Alice Walker