858 Quotes by Alice Walker

I'm not lesbian; I'm not bisexual; I'm not straight. I'm just curious.

I believe that the truth of any subject only comes when all sides of the story are put together.

Those in power must spend a lot of their time laughing at us.

Try not to hold her fears against her. At the end she understood, and believed. And forgave-whatever there was to forgive.

They had a lot of love to give. But I needed love plus understanding. They run a little short of that.

In an oppressive society it may well be that *all* fantasies indulged in by the oppressor are destructive to the oppressed. To become involved in them in any way at all is, at the very least, to lose time defining yourself.To isolate the fantasy we must cleave to reality, to what *we* know, *we* feel, *we* think of life. Trusting our own experience and our own lives; embracing both the dark self and the light.

There is so much we don’t understand. And so much unhappiness comes because of that.

Each woman is capable of truly bringing another into the world. This we must all do for each other.

There is for human beings no greater hell to fear than the one on earth.