Top 219 Quotes by 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.

As long as the people don't fear the truth, there is hope. For once they fear it, the one who tells it doesn't stand a chance. And today, truth is still beautiful... but so frightening.

I've always felt quite singular, even as a child. That I must stay on track to keep my purpose.

The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.

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

For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended.

It is natural to want to have a future.

I'm tri-racial: African-American, Native American and Euro - that's the Scotch-Irish part.

I believe you mother everybody, not in a cloying, hovering way, but taking care of what is around you.

All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.