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.

Israel is guilty of apartheid and persecution of the Palestinian people, both inside Israel and also in the Occupied Territories.

Israel is guilty of apartheid and persecution of the Palestinian people, both inside Israel and also in the Occupied Territories.

Alice Walker

Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.

Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.

Alice Walker

I made my first white women friends in college; they loved me and were loyal to our friendship, but I understood, as they did, that they were white women and that whiteness mattered.

I made my first white women friends in college; they loved me and were loyal to our friendship, but I understood, as they did, that they were white women and that whiteness mattered.

Alice Walker

When I was 18, I went to the Soviet Union. I kept hearing that America was planning to bomb them - lots of bombs were going to come down on these people. I went there not knowing anything, except that I thought the whole thing was stupid and that I wanted to see who these people were that we were going to bomb.

Alice Walker

My family was a poor farming family, and we lived under absolute segregation.

My family was a poor farming family, and we lived under absolute segregation.

Alice Walker

We must begin seeing other creatures as equal. Existence makes us all equal.

We must begin seeing other creatures as equal. Existence makes us all equal.

Alice Walker

I know black people love the idea that we finally have a beautiful, good-looking black president. But if he is doing awful things to us, we should wake up.

I know black people love the idea that we finally have a beautiful, good-looking black president. But if he is doing awful things to us, we should wake up.

Alice Walker

I think America has always been polarized.

I think America has always been polarized.

Alice Walker

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 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.

Alice Walker

I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself - then they get to say 'See, you did it yourself.'

Alice Walker

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