Alice Walker

My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father’s head. It taught me about women defending themselves and not collapsing in a heap.

Alice Walker

Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.

Alice Walker

No matter how hidden the cruelty, no matter how far off the screams of pain and terror, we live in one world. We are one people.

Alice Walker

On a spiritual level, it’s as though with my sighted eye I see what’s before me, and with my unsighted eye I see what’s hidden. It’s illuminated life more than darkened it.

Alice Walker

Once you feel loved by the universe, you’re already accepted, and you’re not really concerned about offending people.

Alice Walker

One of the most serious things for me has been the understanding that the Universe is not that interested in punishing us. Every move we make is simply part of its reflection.

Alice Walker

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

Alice Walker

People have so many hang-ups about how other people live their lives. People always want to keep you in a little box, or they need to label you and fix you in time and location.

Alice Walker

People really had a problem with my disinterest in submission. They had a problem with my intellect, and they had a problem with my choice of lovers. They had a problem with my choice of everything.

Alice Walker

Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.

Alice Walker