858 Quotes by Alice Walker

Women have to be extremely careful about choosing something that they consider an act of defiance that can really be used to further their enslavement.

The nature of this flower is to bloom.

Creation is a sustained period of bliss.

I'm sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power.

What a burden to think one is conceived in sin rather than in pleasure; that one is born into evil rather than into joy.

In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you've become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that's the height of intelligence.

We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.

I am not interested in being a role model, or in fulfilling the expectations of others. I know I am of most use to others and to myself by being this unique self: Nature, I have noticed, is not particularly devoted to copies, and human beings needn't be either.

No song or poem will bear my mother's name. Yet so many of the stories that I write, that we all write, are my mother's stories.