858 Quotes by Alice Walker

Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.

My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig.

Oh, Celie, unbelief is a terrible thing. And so is the hurt we cause others unknowingly.

To grow, to become spiritually alive, and vibrant, you really have to struggle. Without struggle, you do not move at all...I would appreciate it if readers who come to my work would try very, very, very hard not to think narrowly as we are taught to think in America.

My mother had handed down respect for the possibilities...and the will to grasp them.

I met Howard Zinn in 1961, my first year at Spelman College in Atlanta. He was the tall, rangy, good-looking professor that many of the girls at Spelman swooned over.

There's an ecstatic side to writing. It's like jazz. It just has a life.

I'm mad about the waste that happens when people who love each other can't even bring themselves to talk.

For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.