858 Quotes by Alice Walker

Part of our tradition as black women is that we are universalists. Black children, yellow children, red children, brown children, that is the black woman's normal, day-to-day relationship. In my family alone, we are about four different colors.

War will stop when we no longer praise it, or give it any attention at all. Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited.

I deeply regret any harm, or any perceived harm, that I may have done to anyone by any behaviour of mine.

I'm the most stubborn person I know.

Activism is the rent I pay for living on this planet.

I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America's really large shadow and that's not all that bad.

Being happy is not the only happiness.

I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire and enjoy it; that's my religion.

The Olinka girls do not believe girls should be educated. When I asked a mother why she thought this, she said: A girl is nothing to herself; only to her husband can she become something. What can she become? I asked. Why, she said, the mother of his children. But I am not the mother of anybody's children, I said, and I am something.