Alice Walker Quotes

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers' names.

It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's "mature" critics often are.

If I could live as a tree, as a river, as the moon, as the sun, as a star, as the earth, as a rock, I would. ...Writing permits me to experience life as any number of strange creations.

Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.

The original "crime" of "niggers" and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.

It seems our fate to be incorrect ... and in our incorrectness stand.

Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.

It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.

It seems our fate to be incorrect (look where we live, for example), and in our incorrectness stand.

Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.