Alice Walker

Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams.

— Alice Walker

Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.

— Alice Walker

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

— Alice Walker

As long as the people don't fear the truth, there is hope. For once they fear it, the one who tells it doesn't stand a chance. And today, truth is still beautiful... but so frightening.

— Alice Walker

'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.

— Alice Walker

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.

— Alice Walker

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.

— Alice Walker

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.

— Alice Walker

To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.

— Alice Walker

A people do not throw their geniuses away. And if they are thrown away, it is our duty as artists and as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children and, if necessary, bone by bone.

— Alice Walker

I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.

— Alice Walker

A good model of how to 'work with the enemy' internally is presented by the Dalai Lama, in his endless caretaking of his soul as he confronts the Chinese government that invaded Tibet.

— Alice Walker

Propaganda is amazing. People can be led to believe anything.

— Alice Walker

I understood at a very early age that in nature, I felt everything I should feel in church but never did. Walking in the woods, I felt in touch with the universe and with the spirit of the universe.

— Alice Walker

In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you've become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that's the height of intelligence.

— Alice Walker

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

— Alice Walker

Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.

— Alice Walker

A people do not throw their geniuses away. And if they are thrown away, it is our duty as artists and as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children and, if necessary, bone by bone.

— Alice Walker

Part of our tradition as black women is that we are universalists. Black children, yellow children, red children, brown children, that is the black woman's normal, day-to-day relationship. In my family alone, we are about four different colors.

— Alice Walker

Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it's a good place that we're all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it.

— Alice Walker

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

— Alice Walker

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.

— Alice Walker

The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

— Alice Walker

Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.

— Alice Walker

As long as the people don't fear the truth, there is hope. For once they fear it, the one who tells it doesn't stand a chance. And today, truth is still beautiful... but so frightening.

— Alice Walker

And I don't believe you dead. How can you be dead if I still feel you? Maybe, like God, you changed into something different that I'll have to speak to in a different way, but you not dead to me Nettie. And never will you be.

— Alice Walker

You know how big love is? Love is big. love can hold anger; love can even hold hatred.

— Alice Walker

Even as I hold you

— Alice Walker

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 Walker

I made my first white women friends in college; they loved me and were loyal to our friendship, but I understood, as they did, that they were white women and that whiteness mattered.

— Alice Walker

Propaganda is amazing. People can be led to believe anything.

— Alice Walker

Propaganda is amazing. People can be led to believe anything.

— Alice Walker

Time moves slowly, but passes quickly.

— Alice Walker

In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you've become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that's the height of intelligence.

— Alice Walker

Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it's a good place that we're all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it.

— Alice Walker

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

— Alice Walker

For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

— Alice Walker

As long as the people don't fear the truth, there is hope. For once they fear it, the one who tells it doesn't stand a chance. And today, truth is still beautiful... but so frightening.

— Alice Walker

As long as the people don't fear the truth, there is hope. For once they fear it, the one who tells it doesn't stand a chance. And today, truth is still beautiful... but so frightening.

— Alice Walker

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

— Alice Walker

If we want to fight people in the world, we should fight them with pillows - pillows stuffed with food, medicine, music... That would be so much cheaper than bombs.

— Alice Walker

A good model of how to 'work with the enemy' internally is presented by the Dalai Lama, in his endless caretaking of his soul as he confronts the Chinese government that invaded Tibet.

— Alice Walker

Expect nothing. Live frugally

— Alice Walker

In Mississippi, where I lived from 1967 to 1974, people who challenged the system anticipated menace, battery, even murder, every day. In this context, I sometimes felt ashamed that my contributions at the time were not more radical. I taught in two local black colleges, I wrote about the Movement, and I created tiny history booklets which were used to teach the teachers of children enrolled in Head Start. And, of course, I was interracially married, which was illegal. It was perhaps in Mississippi during those years that I understood how the daily news of disaster can become, for the spirit, a numbing assault, and that one's own activism, however modest, fighting against this tide of death, provides at least the possibility of generating a different kind of "news." A "news" that empowers rather that defeats.

— Alice Walker

In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you've become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that's the height of intelligence.

— Alice Walker

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

— Alice Walker