Quotes from Alice Walker

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

I don't generally read reviews.

I want the Israeli government to be made accountable for its behaviour to the Palestinians, and I want the people of the U.S. to cease acting as if they don't understand what is going on.

I can imagine in years to come that my papers and memorabilia, my journals and letters, will find themselves always in the company of people who care about many of the things I do.

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

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

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

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

We have to wake up. We have to refuse to be a clone.

I know black people love the idea that we finally have a beautiful, good-looking black president. But if he is doing awful things to us, we should wake up.

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

I have a collective sense of suffering.

We must do everything in our power to cease the behaviour that makes children everywhere feel afraid.

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

Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me.

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

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

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

... my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.

My writing is very organic. It's what I am. My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig. So I think of it as something that's very essential to my being.

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

(a womanist) 3. Loves music. Loves dance. Loves the moon. Loves the Spirit. Loves love and food and roundness. Loves struggle. Loves the Folk. Loves herself. Regardless.

Our mothers and grandmothers ... moving to music not yet written.

I really think admiration for nature can save us. I mean true admiration, to the point of not letting it be harmed.