More quotes by Alice Walker

"No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow."
"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."
"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."
"But I don't know how to fight. All I know how to do is stay alive."
"If you're silent for a long time, people just arrive in your mind."