Alice Walker

From infancy, I have relied on the fiercely sweet spirits of black men; and this is abundantly clear in my work.

Alice Walker

God is inside you and inside everybody else. You come into the world with God. But only them that search for it inside find it.

Alice Walker

Guided by my heritage of a love of beauty and a respect for strength – in search of my mother’s garden, I found my own.

Alice Walker

Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.

Alice Walker

Healing begins where the wound was made.

Alice Walker

Helped are those who laugh with a pure heart; theirs will be the company of the jolly righteous.

Alice Walker

Helped are those who lose their fear of death; theirs is the power to envision the future in a blade of grass.

Alice Walker

Helped are those whose every act is a prayer for peace; on them depends the future of the world.

Alice Walker

I almost never do anything for Black History Month, because I feel it’s just another way to separate us.

Alice Walker

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

Alice Walker