Alice Walker

Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom.

Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.

The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.

I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.

I made my first white women friends in college; they loved me and were loyal to our friendship, but I understood, as they did, that they were white women and that whiteness mattered.

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