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.

'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.

'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.

Alice Walker

People really had a problem with my disinterest in submission. They had a problem with my intellect, and they had a problem with my choice of lovers. They had a problem with my choice of everything.

People really had a problem with my disinterest in submission. They had a problem with my intellect, and they had a problem with my choice of lovers. They had a problem with my choice of everything.

Alice Walker

Even with all of the things that are so awful, if you walk into your yard and stay there looking at almost anything for five minutes, you will be stunned by how marvelous life is and how incredibly lucky we are to have it.

Alice Walker

In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you've become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that's the height of intelligence.

Alice Walker

Some writers sit down without a thought of what they are going to say, and they go through draft after draft.

Some writers sit down without a thought of what they are going to say, and they go through draft after draft.

Alice Walker

Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.

Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.

Alice Walker

I was brought up to try to see what was wrong and right it. Since I am a writer, writing is how I right it.

I was brought up to try to see what was wrong and right it. Since I am a writer, writing is how I right it.

Alice Walker

Artists have a responsibility to speak and to act when governments fail, and if we don't do that, we really deserve the world we get.

Artists have a responsibility to speak and to act when governments fail, and if we don't do that, we really deserve the world we get.

Alice Walker

You know, one race will not be a survivor if the other one dies, and that's something that we should think about.

You know, one race will not be a survivor if the other one dies, and that's something that we should think about.

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

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