Alice Walker

Animals can communicate quite well. And they do. And generally speaking, they are ignored.

Alice Walker

Animals were not made for us, or our use. They have their own use, which is just being who they are.

Alice Walker

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

Alice Walker

Anything we love can be saved.

Alice Walker

Artists have a responsibility to speak and to act when governments fail, and if we don’t do that, we really deserve the world we get.

Alice Walker

As long as the Earth can make a spring every year, I can. As long as the Earth can flower and produce nurturing fruit, I can, because I’m the Earth. I won’t give up until the Earth gives up.

Alice Walker

As others might prepare for an exam whose subject matter is unknown to them, so I must study, cram, for every conversation with my folks.

Alice Walker

As you know from school, it’s when you have not prepared for the test that you have the fear of failing. And if you have prepared, even if you fail, you’ve done your best.

Alice Walker

Be nobody’s darling; Be an outcast. Take the contradictions of your life and wrap around you like a shawl, to parry stones to keep you warm.

Alice Walker

Because he understood very well what was making her sick. For the first time in her life she had fallen in love at the same time that she had the experience necessary to know it would never work out.

Alice Walker