Quotes from Alice Walker

Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.

I gave my archive to Emory University because there's a really dear friend who teaches there, Rudolph Byrd, and he's the editor.

How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.

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.

I think all documentaries leave out areas of people's lives. Which is good. There are areas that need not be explored.

There's an ecstatic side to writing. It's like jazz. It just has a life.

My family was a poor farming family, and we lived under absolute segregation.

I made my first white women friends in college; they loved me and were loyal to our friendship, but I understood, as they did, that they were white women and that whiteness mattered.

June Jordan, who died of cancer in 2002, was a brilliant, fierce, radical, and frequently furious poet. We were friends for thirty years. Not once in that time did she step back from what was transpiring politically and morally in the world. She spoke up, and led her students, whom she adored, to do the same.

The dropping of bombs on people - isn't that terrorism?

Long as I can spell G-o-d I got somebody along.

We will be ourselves and free, or die in the attempt. Harriet Tubman was not our great-grandmother for nothing.