Quotes from Alice Walker

Every time I conjure up a rock, I throw it.

before I embark on any new venture, I ask myself: will the joy of doing this make me lose track of any concern for time? If the answer is yes, I proceed!

human animals and nonhuman animals can communicate quite well; if we are brought up around animals as children we take this for granted. By the time we are adults we no longer remember.

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 live a very secluded life, a very contemplative life and a very meditative one. That is my ideal life.

Hope to sin only in the service of waking up.

If you want to have a life that is worth living, a life that expresses your deepest feelings and emotions and cares and dreams, you have to fight for it.

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

As far as a glass ceiling, I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts the universe has given you. And if you make it in some way that other people can recognize, that's fine. But even if you don't quote-unquote make it, you're fine if you've given it your whole heart and soul.

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

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

I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.

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

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

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

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

Anything we love can be saved.

You must learn to love only that which cannot be stolen.

Whenever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared. I have been helped, supported, encouraged and nurtured by people of all races, creeds, colors and dreams.

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.

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

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.

David Icke reminded me of Malcolm X.

I'm very disappointed in Obama. I was very much in support of him in the beginning, but I cannot support war. I cannot support droning. I cannot support capitulating to the banks.