858 Quotes by Alice Walker

Why should the killers of the world be “the future” and not us?

Always with me was the inner twin: my true nature, my true self. It is timeless, free, compassionate and in love with whatever is natural to me.

There’s something in all of us that wants a medal for what we have done. That wants to be appreciated.

It just seems clear to me that as long as we are all here, it’s pretty clear that the struggle is to share the planet, rather than divide it.

I don’t know. I imagine good teaching as a circle of earnest people sitting down to ask each other meaningful questions. I don’t see it as a handing down of answers...

How anyone cannot see that Nature is God is amazing to me: that they’d rather worship something that can only exist, really, in their own minds.

If she come, I be happy. If she don’t, I be content. And then I figure this the lesson I was suppose tolearn.

I dead parting from them because in the short time we’ve been together they’ve been like family to me. Like family might have been, I mean.

What did it mean for a black woman to be an artist in our grandmothers’ time? In our great-grandmothers’ day? It is an answer cruel enough to stop the blood.