Inspiring Quotes by Alice Walker
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I wanted in my lifetime to vote for a radical Native American woman, since my vision of any future that we might have is that it will be led by women and older women.

For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life. The writing has been really a byproduct of that.

I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply; it's almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves.

The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.

Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful.

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.

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.

This is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money and power and no empathy.

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.

In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.