Quotes from Alice Walker


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


It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.


Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.


I have never felt that the one thing that I am 'known for' is what I am.


I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you.


I have such respect for 'Democracy Now!'


I realized I was a country person - I'm just not used to small spaces.


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


I start each book when it's ready and never before.


I think all documentaries leave out areas of people's lives. Which is good. There are areas that need not be explored.


I think America has always been polarized.


There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through any spiritual or moral or physical devastation.


I'm tri-racial: African-American, Native American and Euro - that's the Scotch-Irish part.


I'm the most stubborn person I know.


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


It is crucial that young people are taught sustainable child production and rearing.


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


Some writers sit down without a thought of what they are going to say, and they go through draft after draft.


There are thousands of Palestinians in prison virtually for no reason.


I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same time, there's a real lightheartedness about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they're not the same, ever again.