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?'

I think when judges are in the position of authority, they really get bent out of shape when someone tells them they acted inappropriately.

Nothing is so good that impious and sacrilegious and wicked people cannot contort its proper benefit into evil.

Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.