Alice Walker

It's a tragedy, in a way, that Americans are brought up to think that they cannot feel for other people and other beings just because they are different. They think they're different. It's very limiting.

Part of what confuses people in times of upheaval is that you're getting so many different points of view and directions and so and so, how to do this and do that. And a lot of it is written in a language that honestly most people cannot understand.

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

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.

Meditation has been a loyal friend to me. It has helped me write my books.

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

So many killings of black men in my lifetime. The physical shock is astounding.

I live on the West Coast of the United States, and yet the air that I breathe is sometimes the same air that was being breathed in China the day before.

It is important to remember yourself.

Some people are painters, and some are ballet dancers, and I'm a writer.

Fame' exhausts me.

It's very hard for our parents who see us enter a world that they can't imagine.