A girl is nothing to herself; only to her husband can she become something. What can she become? I asked. Why, she said, the mother of his children. But I am not the mother of anybody's children, I said, and I am something.

— Alice Walker

All her young life she has tried to please her father, never quite realizing that, as a girl, she never could.

— Alice Walker

All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.

— Alice Walker

All these faces look happy enough, say Shut. Big and beefy. Eyes clear and innocent, like they don't know them other crooks on the front page. But they the same folks, she says.

— Alice Walker

And I don't believe you're dead. How can you be dead if I still feel you? Maybe, like God, you changed into something different that I'll have to speak to differently, but you are not dead to me Nettie. And never will you be.

— Alice Walker

And I try to teach my heart not to want nothing it can't have.

— Alice Walker

And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.

— Alice Walker

Anyhow, I say, the God I have been praying and writing to is a man. And act just like all the other men I know. Trifling, forgetful, and lowdown.

— 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 long as the people don't fear the truth, there is hope. For once, they fear it, the one who tells it doesn't stand a chance. And today, truth is still beautiful... but so frightening.

— Alice Walker