My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig.

I used to meditate all the time in bed. That was when I was raising my daughter, and I'd get her up and off to school, and then I would go back to bed and meditate. And then I would do the same in the evening, and that was very good for that period because I had so many things to juggle as a single mother.

Artists have a responsibility to speak and to act when governments fail, and if we don't do that, we really deserve the world we get.

Alice Walker Quotes