Alice Walker Quotes

In order to be able to live at all in America I must be unafraid to live anywhere in it, and I must be able to live in the fashion and with whom I choose.

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

To grow, to become spiritually alive, and vibrant, you really have to struggle. Without struggle, you do not move at all...I would appreciate it if readers who come to my work would try very, very, very hard not to think narrowly as we are taught to think in America.

Women have to summon courage to fulfill dormant dreams.

Like I said...fine with me.

Storytelling, you know, has a real function. The process of the storytelling is itself a healing process, partly because you have someone there who is taking the time to tell you a story that has great meaning to them. They're taking the time to do this because your life could use some help, but they don't want to come over and just give advice. They want to give it to you in a form that becomes inseparable from your whole self. That's what stories do. Stories differ from advice in that, once you get them, they become a fabric of your whole soul. That is why they heal you.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The artist...is the voice of the people.

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.

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

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