858 Quotes by Alice Walker

The creative mind is not a mind full of stuff.

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

I grew up in the South under segregation. So, I know what terrorism feels like - when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn't look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. I mean, that's terrorism, too.

At one point I learned transcendental meditation. This was 30-something years ago. It took me back to the way that I naturally was as a child growing up way in the country, rarely seeing people. I was in that state of oneness with creation and it was as if I didn't exist except as a part of everything.

Artists have a responsibility to speak and to act when governments fail, and if we don't do that, we really deserve the world we get.

The long-term accommodation that protects marriage and other such relationships is ... forgetfulness.

My mother had bought a sewing machine for me. When I went away to college, she gave me a sewing machine, a typewriter and a suitcase, and my mother made $17 a week working as a maid 12 hours a day, and she did that for me.

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.

If a person is hit hard enough, even if she stands, she falls.