Alice Walker Quotes
All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.
In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.
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.
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
The nature of this flower is to bloom.
Everything want to be loved. Us sing and dance and holler, just trying to be loved.
I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
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.
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.
We do not believe in heaven or hell...; we do not believe in eternal damnation. We believe only in the unavoidable horror of hurting others and of likewise being hurt.
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.
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.
The world is changing. It is no longer a world just for boys and men.
Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.
Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
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.
Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.
In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.
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.
I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ast. And that in wondering bout the big things and asting bout the big things, you learn about the little ones, almost by accident. But you never know nothing more about the big things than you start out with. The more I wonder, he say, the more I love.
When life descends into the pit
I must become my own candle
Willingly burning my self
To light up the darkness around me.
Helped are those who are content to be themselves; they will never lack mystery in their lives and the joys of self-discovery will be constant.
Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.
Any God I ever found in church, I brought in myself.
Be nobody's darling;
Be an outcast.
Take the contradictions
Of your life
And wrap around
You like a shawl,
To parry stones
To keep you warm.
I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.
I try to teach my heart not to want things it can't have.
