Alice Walker Quotes

Well, fear and homophobia are both pervasive.

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

We all bleed the same color. It hurts when we bleed.

I don't even know where to start in terms of people having such an issue about color, especially being dark. I just think on different levels it's ignorance; it's no belief, no confidence, it's insecurity, so you want to inflict it on somebody else.

I would walk into a room, and people would be like, 'Hide the children. Here comes the guy with AIDS.' That's very demeaning, and it really hurts your spirit.

I think I know a thing or two about the way people love, but I don't know anything about hatred, psychosis, cruelty. Or maybe I don't have the guts to admit that I do.

To deaden yourself against any hurt is to deaden yourself also against the hurt of others.

I see myself in all the people in the world who are suffering and who are very badly treated and who are often made to feel that they have no place on this Earth.

We live in a world where there are dangerous people, there are bad people.

There are evil people, and I don't even want to hear those guys speak.

So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety misogyny, hatred or ignorance, just look it in the eye and think, 'The good outnumber you, and we always will.'

Bigotry and judgment are the height of insecurity.

As many times as I've seen 'The Merchant of Venice,' I always take Shylock's side. For all the hatred that guy is shown, he has a reason to hate in return. He's treated cruelly. And it's tragic that he learns to be intolerant because of what others do to him.

The worst thing about that kind of prejudice... is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the rest of it, it feeds you self-doubt. You start thinking, perhaps I am not good enough.

Cruelty is all out of ignorance. If you knew what was in store for you, you wouldn't hurt anybody, because whatever you do comes back much more forceful than you send it out.

Evil is the shadow of angel. Just as there are angels of light, support, guidance, healing and defense, so we have experiences of shadow angels. And we have names for them: racism, sexism, homophobia are all demons - but they're not out there.

It is because we are all imposters that we endure each other.

Without the compassionate understanding of the fear and trepidation that lie behind courageous speech, we are bound only to our arrogance.

It is impossible not to notice that our world is tormented by failure, hate, guilt, and fear.

You feel the shame, humiliation, and anger at being just another victim of prejudice, and at the same time, there's the nagging worry that maybe... you're just no good.

I never thought my imperfections would be weaponized and used to try to destroy me and the community that I have loved.

Politicians should reflect on the well-documented fact that fearful, insecure people lose their sense of tolerance and altruism.

I don't think I ever sit there and think to kick a wound harder.

There is too much hate in the world; too much hurt.

I think what happens is when you have fear, fear translates into hatred.