Alice walker

The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.

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

I cannot claim to have had a hard time publishing.

I started out as a poet. I've always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be fundamentally a poet who got into writing novels.

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.

Horses make a landscape look beautiful.

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

Sucking up to the biggies won't get us anywhere.

The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.

Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.