Quotes by Alice Walker

War contributes greatly to global warming, which shouldn’t surprise us. All those bombs going off, all those rockets, all those planes and helicopters. All that fuel of various kinds being used. It pollutes the air and water of this very fragile and interconnected planet.

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

All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.

It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put – without delay, and with tenderness – back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try.

Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they’ve had forever. And they’ve been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.

I don’t call myself a Buddhist. I’m a free spirit. I believe I’m here on earth to admire and enjoy it that’s my religion.

I’m sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power.

Politically, the world is so confused right now – there’s so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.

Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.