858 Quotes by Alice Walker

Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.

You can love yourself spiritually, physically-in almost any way that anybody else can.

no person is your friend (or kin) who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow and be perceived as fully blossomed as you were intended. Or who belittles in any fashion the gifts you labor so to bring into the world.

A good model of how to 'work with the enemy' internally is presented by the Dalai Lama, in his endless caretaking of his soul as he confronts the Chinese government that invaded Tibet.

You don't always have to be doing something. You can just be, and that's plenty.

Love likes to extend itself. If you receive it in a book - or however you get it - then your duty is to extend it beyond.

In the far upper corner of my altar is a photo of Joan Crawford in her most fierce Mommy Dearest mode, just to remind me of some of the cost of everyone's hard-earned sweetness and light.

Some people are painters, and some are ballet dancers, and I'm a writer.

One child must never be set above another, even in casual conversation, not to mention in speeches that circle the globe.