Alice Walker quotes

Alice Walker is an American novelist, poet, and activist, best known for her novel "The Color Purple." Her works explore themes of race, gender, and social injustice. She has received numerous awards and remains an influential voice in contemporary literature. Here are 201 of her quotes:

I think it pisses God off when you walk by the colour purple in a field and don't notice it. (Alice Walker)
I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart. View quote
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. View quote
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. View quote
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What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears. View quote
Alice Walker
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any. View quote
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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow. View quote
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People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools. View quote
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Horses make a landscape look beautiful. View quote
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Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it. View quote
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Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week. (Alice Walker)
In search of my mother's garden, I found my own. View quote
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Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence. View quote
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Activism is my rent for living on this planet. View quote
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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? View quote
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Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise. View quote
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I don't know nothing, I think. And glad of it. View quote
Alice Walker
Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself. View quote
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Time moves slowly, but passes quickly. View quote
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Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be. View quote
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A grown child is a dangerous thing. (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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors. View quote
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Oh, Celie, unbelief is a terrible thing. And so is the hurt we cause others unknowingly. View quote
Alice Walker

Alice Walker

Alice Walker - Image
Photo: Virginia DeBolt, CC BY-SA 2.0
Occupation: American Author
Born: February 9, 1944
Quotes count: 201
Wikipedia: Alice Walker

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