Quotes by Alice Walker

"“Progress” affects few. Only revolution can affect many."

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

"It is because I recognize the brutality with which my own multi-branched ancestors have been treated that I can identify the despicable, lawless, cruel, and sadistic behavior that has characterized Israel's attempts to erase a people, the Palestinians, from their own land."

"The dropping of bombs on people - isn't that terrorism?"

"Most damage that others do us is out of fear, humiliation and pain. Those feelings occur in all of us, not just in those of us who profess a certain religious or racial devotion."

"I deeply regret any harm, or any perceived harm, that I may have done to anyone by any behaviour of mine."

"I'm not lesbian; I'm not bisexual; I'm not straight. I'm just curious."

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

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

"I think 'The Color Purple' is so bursting with love, the need for connection, the showing of the need for connection around the globe."

"And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read."

"Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister."

"Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it's a good place that we're all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it."

"I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything."

"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."

"Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender."

"If you want to have a life that is worth living, a life that expresses your deepest feelings and emotions and cares and dreams, you have to fight for it."

"My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it."

"In my work and in myself I reflect black people, women and men, as I reflect others. One day even the most self-protective ones will look into the mirror I provide and not be afraid."

"I'm for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing."