Alice Walker quotes

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.

Alice Walker

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Alice Walker

I have learned not to worry about love, but to honor its coming with all my heart.

Alice Walker

God is inside you and inside everybody else. But only them that search for it inside find it. And sometimes it just manifest itself even if you not looking, or don't know what you looking for. Trouble for most folks be God ain't a he or a she, but a It.

Alice Walker

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.

Alice Walker

Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.

Alice Walker

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.

Alice Walker

Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful.

Alice Walker

Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.

Alice Walker

For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle, and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

Alice Walker

And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see, or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.

Alice Walker

It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's ''mature'' critics often are.

Alice Walker

All History is current, all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.

Alice Walker

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

Alice Walker

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.

Alice Walker

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.

Alice Walker

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

Alice Walker

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

Alice Walker

What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.

Alice Walker

People do not wish to appear foolish. To avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.

Alice Walker

Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me.

Alice Walker

The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'.

Alice Walker

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

Alice Walker

The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

Alice Walker

Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.

Alice Walker

The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.

Alice Walker

Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to get attention we do, except walk?

Alice Walker

I try to teach my heart not to want things it can't have.

Alice Walker

It seems our fate to be incorrect (look where we live, for example), and in our incorrectness stand.

Alice Walker

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

Alice Walker

Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.

Alice Walker

It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.

Alice Walker

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.

Alice Walker

I'm always amazed that people will actually choose to sit in front of the television and just be savaged by stuff that belittles their intelligence.

Alice Walker

People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don't.

Alice Walker