Alice walker

This is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money and power and no empathy.

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

I just feel that 'The Color Purple,' which was my 10th book, was a true gift from my ancestors.

Can people who hunger so desperately for what other people have ever have enough?

I prefer to praise people and the world rather than criticize them and it.

Horses make a landscape look beautiful.

I cannot claim to have had a hard time publishing.

Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also.

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.

It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's 'mature' critics often are.