858 Quotes by Alice Walker

I can spend two hours grubbing about in my garden, dazed with pleasure and intent, and it feels like five minutes.

Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.

I have never felt that the one thing that I am 'known for' is what I am.

'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say.

Israel is guilty of apartheid and persecution of the Palestinian people, both inside Israel and also in the Occupied Territories.

I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you. So, the best way to get them to read, is to read. The best way to get them to do anything is to do it yourself, and they will absolutely copy you. That way, you don't have to worry about what's supposedly age appropriate, a child will pick something up when the child is ready.

Just be what it is that you are, and that is just fine. You don't have to be what you're not in any way. Live that and live that fully, and that is where you discover ecstasy. You can't really have ecstasy as something other than yourself

We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise.

I realized I was a country person - I'm just not used to small spaces.