Quotes by Alice Walker

About Alice Walker:

Alice Malsenior Walker is an American author and activist. She wrote the critically acclaimed novel The Color Purple (1982) for which she won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. She also wrote Meridian and The Third Life of Grange Copeland among other works.
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I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you.

Alice Walker

I start each book when it's ready and never before.

Alice Walker

There are thousands of Palestinians in prison virtually for no reason.

Alice Walker

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

Alice Walker

It's an awful feeling to write something that you feel is really important... and to feel that you're being published by people who really don't get it and/or don't really care.

Alice Walker

I'm tri-racial: African-American, Native American and Euro - that's the Scotch-Irish part.

Alice Walker

It is crucial that young people are taught sustainable child production and rearing.

Alice Walker

I'm still living at least five parallel lives, honestly! I wonder about it. I have no idea how that happens.

Alice Walker

I think America has always been polarized.

Alice Walker

"We are not over when we think we are.

Alice Walker

What that song? I ast. Sound low down dirty to me. Like what the preacher tells you its sin to hear. Not to mention sing. She hum a little more. Something come to me, she say. Something I made up. Something you help scratch out my head.

Alice Walker

When it is all too much; when the news is so bad meditation itself feels useless, and a single life feels too small a stone to offer on the altar of Peace, find a Human Sunrise. Find those people who are committed to changing our scary reality. Human...

Alice Walker

Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.

Alice Walker

Those in power must spend a lot of their time laughing at us.

Alice Walker

But I don't know how to fight. All I know how to do is stay alive.

Alice Walker

They be marching hand in hand, like going to war.

Alice Walker

All her young life she has tried to please her father, never quite realizing that, as a girl, she never could.

Alice Walker

I am so happy. I got love, I got work, I got money, friends and time.

Alice Walker

You think you can avoid [pain,] but you actually can't. If you do, you just get sicker, or you feel more pain. But if you can speak it, if you can write it, if you can paint it, it is very healing.

Alice Walker

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...

Alice Walker

There is a way that the men speak to women that reminds me too much of Pa. They listen just long enough to issue instructions. They don’t even look at women when women are speaking. They look at the ground and bend their heads toward the ground.

Alice Walker

Author Bio

  • NameAlice Walker
  • DescriptionAmerican author and activist
  • BornFebruary 9, 1944
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Poet; Novelist
  • WorksThe Color Purple
  • AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship; National Book Award; Lillian Smith Book Award; Lillian Smith Book Award; Humanist Of The Year