Alice Walker

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

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

The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'

My feeling for reality TV isn't ironic, guilty, or apologetic. Reality TV is one of the few remaining modes of popular entertainment in which characterization is permitted as plot.

I would've done anything to work with Satyajit Ray.

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.