Top 219 Quotes by Alice Walker

About Alice Walker

These are some quotes by American author Alice Walker Author, who was born on February 9, 1944.

My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father's head. It taught me about women defending themselves and not collapsing in a heap.

My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father's head. It taught me about women defending themselves and not collapsing in a heap.

Alice Walker

We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.

We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.

Alice Walker

I grew up in the South under segregation. So, I know what terrorism feels like - when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn't look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. I mean, that's terrorism, too.

Alice Walker

It's a tragedy, in a way, that Americans are brought up to think that they cannot feel for other people and other beings just because they are different. They think they're different. It's very limiting.

Alice Walker

It is natural to want to have a future.

It is natural to want to have a future.

Alice Walker

We have to wake up. We have to refuse to be a clone.

We have to wake up. We have to refuse to be a clone.

Alice Walker

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.

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.

Alice Walker

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

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

Alice Walker

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

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

Alice Walker

I met Howard Zinn in 1961, my first year at Spelman College in Atlanta. He was the tall, rangy, good-looking professor that many of the girls at Spelman swooned over.

I met Howard Zinn in 1961, my first year at Spelman College in Atlanta. He was the tall, rangy, good-looking professor that many of the girls at Spelman swooned over.

Alice Walker

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