Alice Walker 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.
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
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
What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.
Alice Walker
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
Alice Walker
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
Alice Walker
People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.
Alice Walker
Horses make a landscape look beautiful.
Alice Walker
Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.
Alice Walker
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.
Alice Walker
Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.
Alice Walker
Activism is my rent for living on this planet.
Alice Walker
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
Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
Alice Walker
I don't know nothing, I think. And glad of it.
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
Time moves slowly, but passes quickly.
Alice Walker
Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.
Alice Walker
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.
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
Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.
Alice Walker
Oh, Celie, unbelief is a terrible thing. And so is the hurt we cause others unknowingly.
Alice Walker