Alice Walker Quotes

Alice Walker Quotes.

I'm very disappointed in Obama. I was very much in supp

I’m very disappointed in Obama. I was very much in support of him in the beginning, but I cannot support war. I cannot support droning. I cannot support capitulating to the banks.
Alice Walker
Propaganda is amazing. People can be led to believe anything.
Alice Walker
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
Alice Walker
Creation is a sustained period of bliss, even though the subject can still be very sad. Because there’s the triumph of coming through and understanding that you have, and that you did it the way only you could do it. You didn’t do it the way somebody told you to do it.
Alice Walker
Since the time of the witch burnings, the grandmothers and the healers and the midwives have been systematically targeted. And burned at the stake for hundreds of years, decimating whole communities.
Alice Walker
If we want to fight people in the world, we should fight them with pillows – pillows stuffed with food, medicine, music… That would be so much cheaper than bombs.
Alice Walker
Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and t

Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
Alice Walker
It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put – without delay, and with tenderness – back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try.
Alice Walker
You bring children into the world. You love them with heart and soul.
Alice Walker
If you want to have a life that is worth living, a life that expresses your deepest feelings and emotions and cares and dreams, you have to fight for it.
Alice Walker
For me, I used to be shy towards journalism because it wasn’t poetry. And then I realized that the events that I covered in essays that became journalism were actually great because they inspired me, and they became my muse.
Alice Walker
So many killings of black men in my lifetime. The physical shock is astounding.
Alice Walker
The most important question in the world is, 'Why is th

The most important question in the world is, ‘Why is the child crying?’
Alice Walker
My life is not to be somebody else’s impact – you know what I mean?
Alice Walker