The 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 WalkerGuided by my heritage of a love of beauty and a respect for strength - in search of my mother's garden, I found my own.
Alice WalkerI feel that the ancestors are that covering that will cover me. I feel like I can only be enveloped in them spiritually and physically.
Alice WalkerDeliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.
Alice WalkerAs for those who think the Arab world promises freedom, the briefest study of its routine traditional treatment of blacks (slavery) and women (purdah) will provide relief from all illusion. If Malcolm X had been a black woman his last message to the world would have been entirely different. The brotherhood of Moslem men-all colors-may exist there, but part of the glue that holds them together is the thorough suppression of women.
Alice Walker