Alice Walker

Just be what it is that you are, and that is just fine. You don’t have to be what you’re not in any way. Live that and live that fully, and that is where you discover ecstasy. You can’t really have ecstasy as something other than yourself.

Alice Walker

Laughter isn’t even the other side of tears. It is tears turned inside out. Truly the suffering is great, here on earth.

Alice Walker

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.

Alice Walker

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

Alice Walker

Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.

Alice Walker

Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.

Alice Walker

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.

Alice Walker

My ancestors make up the skin of the world. That’s who that is. That’s what that is. That’s us.

Alice Walker

My God is not a religious God. My God is nature, my God is everything there is. That’s God. Everything is God. I’m a child of that.

Alice Walker

My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig.

Alice Walker