Alice Walker Quotes


Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me. Alice Walker Mom 126
Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself. Alice Walker Happy 122
All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world. Alice Walker History 109
Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of selfhate. Alice Walker War 97
In search of my mother's garden, I found my own. Alice Walker Gardening 96
People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools. Alice Walker Appear 94
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 Art 93
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 Creativity 90
Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk? Alice Walker Plants 89
It seems our fate to be incorrect (look where we live, for example), and in our incorrectness stand. Alice Walker Politics 88
Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender. Alice Walker Feminist 87
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 Mother 85
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 Women 82
How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names. Alice Walker Mom 79
When the ax came into the forest the trees said the handle is one of us. Alice Walker Mistakes 79
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow. Alice Walker Friend 78
Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it. Alice Walker Death 76
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 Society 74
The sight of a Black nun strikes their sentimentality; and, as I am unalterably rooted in native ground, they consider me a work of primitive art, housed in a magical color; the incarnation of civilized, anti-heathenism, and the fruit of a triumphing idea. Alice Walker Religion 74
Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government. Alice Walker Government 74
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 Society 73
Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom. Alice Walker Wisdom 73
Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home. Alice Walker Home 72
We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that's going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it. Alice Walker Change 72
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 Brought 70
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 Freedom 70
In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful. Alice Walker Nature 69
One thing that never ceases to amaze me, along with the growth of vegetation from the earth and of hair from the head, is the growth of understanding. Alice Walker Uncategorized 67
The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout. Alice Walker Die 66
The world is changing. It is no longer a world just for boys and men Alice Walker Color 66
Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be. Alice Walker Power 63
The Nature of This Flower is to bloom. Alice Walker Beauty 63
Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. Alice Walker Brought 62
To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people. Alice Walker Almost 62
I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same time, there's a real lightheartedness about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they're not the same, ever again. Alice Walker Change 61
The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior. Alice Walker Faith 57
There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through any spiritual or moral or physical devastation. Alice Walker Believe 57
It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all. Alice Walker Father 52
Even as I hold you I am letting you go. Alice Walker Loss 51
I'm for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing. Alice Walker Women 50
I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame. Alice Walker Money 50
The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves. Alice Walker Dissent 50
I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire and enjoy it; that's my religion. Alice Walker Religion 49
In my work and in myself I reflect black people, women and men, as I reflect others. One day even the most self-protective ones will look into the mirror I provide and not be afraid. Alice Walker Women 49
I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart. Alice Walker Love 48
The life of my people is to remember forever each head granary is full. The life of your people is to forget your thing granaries museums and not yourselves are full. Alice Walker Living 46
Horses make a landscape look beautiful. Alice Walker Horses 46
This is the true wine of astonishment We are not over when we think we are. Alice Walker Aging 45
My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it. Alice Walker Work 45
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 Women 44

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