858 Quotes by Alice Walker

Not everyone's life is what they make it. Some people's life is what other people make it.

Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?

I'm not being disrespectful of the medium; it's just not as important as the work that I actually do [books].

The fact is that when you do something from your heart, you leave a heart print.

I started out as a poet. I've always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be fundamentally a poet who got into writing novels.

Nature has created us with the capacity to know God, to experience God.

Curiosity is my natural state and has led me headlong into every worthwhile experience (never mind the others) I have ever had.

I don't focus on criticism. I prefer to praise people and the world, rather than criticize them and it.

In my work and in myself I reflect black people, women and men, as I reflect others. One day even the most self-protective ones will look into the mirror I provide and not be afraid.