858 Quotes by Alice Walker

We must do everything in our power to cease the behaviour that makes children everywhere feel afraid.

No matter how hidden the cruelty, no matter how far off the screams of pain and terror, we live in one world. We are one people.

You really can't be a good artist if you can't say what you really feel. And people may be offended, but, you know, that's how you feel, and that is your right, and that is your gift as well.

We will be ourselves and free, or die in the attempt. Harriet Tubman was not our great-grandmother for nothing.

I love the natural world - it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.

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.

before I embark on any new venture, I ask myself: will the joy of doing this make me lose track of any concern for time? If the answer is yes, I proceed!

My God is not a religious God. My God is nature, my God is everything there is. That's God. Everything is God. I'm a child of that.

Guided by my heritage of a love of beauty and a respect for strength - in search of my mother's garden, I found my own.