858 Quotes by Alice Walker

Part of what confuses people in times of upheaval is that you’re getting so many different points of view and directions and so and so, how to do this and do that. And a lot of it is written in a language that honestly most people cannot understand.

Until you do right by me, I say, everything you even dream about will fail.

A writer’s heart, a poet’s heart, an artist’s heart, a musician’s heart is always breaking. It is through that broken window that we see the world...

I see children, all children, as humanity’s most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left.

What I am really interested in is that I want people to be thinking in other ways – to stop thinking they have to remain glued to a system that has failed and to ideas about society that’s necessarily about being run by Democrats or Republicans.

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn’t matter. I’m not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn’t make us better, then what on earth is it for.

I wash her body, it feels like I’m praying. My hands tremble and my breath short.

Love is big; love can hold anger, love can even hold hatred. It’s about the intention of what you want it to do.

My parents taught me service – not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.