Top 219 Quotes by Alice Walker

It's not possible to stop love.

It's an awful feeling to write something that you feel is really important... and to feel that you're being published by people who really don't get it and/or don't really care.

If we want to fight people in the world, we should fight them with pillows - pillows stuffed with food, medicine, music... That would be so much cheaper than bombs.

Horses make a landscape look beautiful.

I don't feel I've had a decent critic ever on the East coast.

We must do everything in our power to cease the behaviour that makes children everywhere feel afraid.

You don't always have to be doing something. You can just be, and that's plenty.

It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's 'mature' critics often are.

I was distressed that after 9/11, when the United States was attacked by terrorists, the United States' response was to attack Afghanistan, where some of the terrorists had been.

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.