Alice Walker Quotes

America is America. It's a capitalist system. They [leaders] have enshrined that belief that profit matters more than anything else. The polarization of the society is just the resurfacing of that.

You don't really stay attached to things. Life goes on, so you don't really sit around and think about how they are relevant to other people. You hope that whatever you create will be [relevant].

Animals were not made for us, or our use. They have their own use, which is just being who they are.

You really can't be a good artist if you can't say what you really feel. And people may be offended, but, you know, that's how you feel, and that is your right, and that is your gift as well.

I'm not being disrespectful of the medium; it's just not as important as the work that I actually do [books].

Everything want to be loved. Us sing and dance and holler, just trying to be loved.

Surely the earth can be savedby all the peoplewho insiston love.

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.

Now. Is this life or not?I be so calm.If she come, I be happy. If she don’t, I be content.And then I figure this the lesson I was suppose to learn.

And I try to teach my heart not to want nothing it can't have.

They be marching hand in hand, like going to war.

Dear Nettie, I don't write to God no more, I write to you.

All her young life she has tried to please her father, never quite realizing that, as a girl, she never could.

Sofia the kind of woman no matter what she have in her hand she make it look like a weapon.

Long as I can spell G-o-d I got somebody along.

Why should the killers of the world be "the future" and not us?

I live a very secluded life, a very contemplative life and a very meditative one. That is my ideal life.

Anyhow, I say, the God I been praying and writing to is a man. And act just like all the other mens I know. Trifling, forgitful, and lowdown.

The three wealthiest people in the world own more than the GDP of forty-eight countries!

Peace": the fruit of justice done especially to the Self.

You think you can avoid [pain, ] but you actually can't. If you do, you just get sicker, or you feel more pain. But if you can speak it, if you can write it, if you can paint it, it is very healing.

Hope to sin only in the service of waking up.

Once us feel loved by God, us do the best us can to please him with what us like.

I believe that the truth of any subject only comes when all sides of the story are put together.

It all I can do not to cry. I make myself wood I say to myself, Celie, you a tree. That's how I come to know trees fear man.

Hard times' is a phrase the English love to use, when speaking of Africa. And it is easy to forget that Africa's 'hard times' were made harder by them.

She got a long pointed nose and big fleshy mouth. Lips look like black plum. Eyes big, glossy. Feverish. And mean. Like, sick as she is, if a snake cross her path, she kill it

The crushed teapot in the rubbish of the bulldozed house will sing in your ears forever.

I am an expression of the divine, just like a peach is, just like a fish is.

All these faces look happy enough, say Shug. Big and beefy. Eyes clear and innocent, like they don't know them other crooks on the front page. But they the same folks, she say.

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

Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams.

Is solace anywhere more comforting than in the arms of sisters?

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

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

As long as the Earth can make a spring every year I can. As long as the Earth can flower and produce nurturing fruit I can because I'm the Earth. I won't give up until the Earth gives up.

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.

Our mothers and our grandmothers some of them: moving to music not yet written.

If you want to have a life that is worth living, a life that expresses your deepest feelings and emotions and cares and dreams, you have to fight for it.

I think 'The Color Purple' is so bursting with love, the need for connection, the showing of the need for connection around the globe.

I understood at a very early age that in nature, I felt everything I should feel in church but never did. Walking in the woods, I felt in touch with the universe and with the spirit of the universe.

If we want to fight people in the world, we should fight them with pillows - pillows stuffed with food, medicine, music... That would be so much cheaper than bombs.

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.

Propaganda is amazing. People can be led to believe anything.

This is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money and power and no empathy.

As long as the people don't fear the truth, there is hope. For once they fear it, the one who tells it doesn't stand a chance. And today, truth is still beautiful... but so frightening.

Most damage that others do us is out of fear, humiliation and pain. Those feelings occur in all of us, not just in those of us who profess a certain religious or racial devotion.

One of the triumphs of the Civil Rights Movement is that when you travel through the South today, you do not feel overwhelmed by a residue of grievance and hate.

You know how big love is? Love is big. love can hold anger love can even hold hatred.