Alice Walker

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.
-Alice Walker

Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.
-Alice Walker

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
-Alice Walker

For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.
-Alice Walker

Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful.
-Alice Walker

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.
-Alice Walker

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.
-Alice Walker

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
-Alice Walker

Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.
-Alice Walker