Quotes from Alice Walker
I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.
- Alice Walker
I believe you mother everybody, not in a cloying, hovering way, but taking care of what is around you.
- Alice Walker
You must learn to love only that which cannot be stolen.
- Alice Walker
I love the natural world - it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.
- Alice Walker
Some people are painters, and some are ballet dancers, and I'm a writer.
- Alice Walker
She say, Celie, tell the truth, have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show.
- Alice Walker
I just really love people a lot. I really love them.
- Alice Walker
Listen, God loves everything you love, and a mess of stuff you don't.
- Alice Walker
Love likes to extend itself. If you receive it in a book - or however you get it - then your duty is to extend it beyond.
- Alice Walker
How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
- Alice Walker
I think that all people who feel that there is injustice in the world anywhere should learn as much of it as they can bear. That is our duty.
- Alice Walker
My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig.
- Alice Walker