Alice Walker

“You'd be surprised how good writing matters when you're going after money.”

“Time moves slowly, but passes quickly.”

“He did not use these things anymore, and yet, the thought of letting them go made him sad. He felt they represented times in his life he could not recall without their presence. They represe...”

“Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don’t even recognize that growth is happening. We may feel hostile or angry or weepy and hysterical, or we may feel depressed. It would ne...”

“...the earth on which we live is the body of God. All people and living things are the body and soul of God. And...we serve God not by making the earth and its people suffer but by making th...”

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

“From infancy, I have relied on the fiercely sweet spirits of black men; and this is abundantly clear in my work.”

“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.”

“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.”

“All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.”

“June Jordan, who died of cancer in 2002, was a brilliant, fierce, radical, and frequently furious poet. We were friends for thirty years. Not once in that time did she step back from what wa...”

“We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise.”

“I advocate that every woman be a part of a circle, and a circle that meets at least once a month, or if you can't do that, once every two months or every four months.”

“I was distressed that after 9/11, when the United States was attacked by terrorists, the United States' response was to attack Afghanistan, where some of the terrorists had been.”

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

“I think that all people who feel that there is injustice in the world anywhere should learn as much of it as they can bear. That is our duty.”

“Even with all of the things that are so awful, if you walk into your yard and stay there looking at almost anything for five minutes, you will be stunned by how marvelous life is and how inc...”

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

“I wanted in my lifetime to vote for a radical Native American woman, since my vision of any future that we might have is that it will be led by women and older women.”

“As an elder of the Americas and of the rest of the planet, it is my responsibility to care for and protect, to the best of my ability, the young.”