Alice Walker World Quotations

All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.

I love the natural world - it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.

Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.

The world is changing. It is no longer a world just for boys and men

Books became my world because the world I was in was very hard.

God is inside you and inside everybody else. You come into the world with God. But only them that search for it inside find it. And sometimes it just manifest itself even if you not looking, or don't know what you looking for. Trouble do it for most folks, I think. ... Yeah, It. God ain't a he or a she, but a It.

Writing poems is my way of celebrating with the world that I have not committed suicide the evening before.

To know is to exist; to exist is to be involved, to move about, to see the world with my own eyes.

Artists are messengers whose responsibility is to unite the world -- a faith that will lead not to destruction but to transformation.

HELPED are those whose every act is a prayer for peace; on them depends the future of the world.

My activism really is for myself, because I see places in the world where I feel I should be. If there is something really bad, really evil, happening somewhere, then that is where I should be. I need, for myself, to feel that I have stood there. It feels a lot better than just watching it on television.

How we come into this world, how we are ushered in, met, and hopefully embraced upon arrival, impacts the whole of our time on earth.

The Animals of the planet are in desperate peril and they are fully aware of this. No less than human beings are doing in all parts of the world, they are seeking sanctuary.

We writers - we're the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.