858 Quotes by Alice Walker

Sometimes, reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled, and can no longer spell or write a sentence.

The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.

The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.

Anything we love can be saved.

It has been proved that the land can exist without the country - and be better for it; it has not been proved ... that the country can exist without the land.

The good news may be that Nature is phasing out the white man, but the bad news is that's who She thinks we all are.

The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.

I grew up in the South [USA states] under segregation. I know what terrorism feels like - when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn't look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. That's terrorism, too.

Sucking up to the biggies won't get us anywhere.