858 Quotes by Alice Walker

I realized I was a country person – I’m just not used to small spaces.

It’s better to have your blackness taken away than to stand there and lie about who you actually are. That’s the trap.

I recognized myself in Jane Eyre. It amazes me how many white people can’t read themselves in black characters. I didn’t feel any separation between me and Jane. We were tight.

Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they’ve had forever. And they’ve been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.

Of what was plastic made? What died? He knew it was a product of petroleum, of oil, and so he assumed plastic was made out of the very lifeblood of the planet. When all the oil was drained, he imagined the planet quaking and shrinking in on itself, like a squeezed orange that has been sucked to death. He.

He is a very sensitive soul who hears what isn’t said as clearly as what is.

You know a little drink now and then never hurt nobody, but when you can’t git started without asking the bottle, you in trouble.

I’m the most stubborn person I know.

I’m the kind of woman that likes to enjoy herselves in peace.