Alice Walker quotes on friendship
“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
“no person is your friend (or kin) who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow and be perceived as fully blossomed as you were intended. Or who belittles in any fashion the gifts you labor so to bring into the world.”
“Life is very different when you have a good friend. I've seen people without special friends, close friends. Other men, especially. For some reason men don't often make and keep friends. This is a real tragedy, I think, because in a way, without a tight male friend, you never really are able to see yourself.”
“I am so happy. I got love, I got work, I got money, friends and time.”
“no person is a friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow”
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Alice Walker quotes on feminism
“Man corrupt everything, say Shug. He on your box of grits, in your head, and all over the radio. He try to make you think he everywhere. Soon as you think he everywhere, you think he God. But he ain't. Whenever you trying to pray, and man plop himself on the other end of it, tell him to git lost, say Shug. Conjure up the flowers, wind, water, a big rock.”
“The world is changing. It is no longer a world just for boys and men”
“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. ”
“Just cause I love her don't take away none of her rights.”
“womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender”
“Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week. ”
“Sofia the kind of woman no matter what she have in her hand she make it look like a weapon.”
“Why any woman give a shit what people think is a mystery to me.”
“Women have to summon courage to fulfill dormant dreams.”
“If he ever listened to poor colored women the world would be a different place, I can tell you.”
Alice Walker quotes from ‘The Color Purple’
“A grown child is a dangerous thing.”
“Everything want to be loved.”
“I'm pore, I'm black, I may be ugly and can't cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I'm here.”
“Why any woman give a shit what people think is a mystery to me.”
“Who am I to tell her who to love? My job just to love her good and true myself. P. 237”
“Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.”
“Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to get attention we do, except walk?”
“I believe God is everything, say Shug. Everything that is or ever was or ever will be. And when you can feel that, and be happy to feel that, you've found It.”
“Here's the thing, say Shug. The thing I believe. God is inside you and inside everybody else. You come into the world with God. But only them that search for it inside find it. And some-times it just manifest itself even if you not looking, or don't know what you looking for l. Trouble do it for most folks, I think. Sorrow, Lord. Feeling like shit.”
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Alice Walker quotes on love
“Never offer your heart to someone who eats hearts who finds heartmeat delicious but not rare who sucks the juices drop by drop and bloody-chinned grins like a God.”
“You must learn to love only that which cannot be stolen.”
“I love his dear eyes in which the vulnerability and beauty of his soul can be plainly read.”
“The only way to solace anyone who loved you in life is to be a good memory”
“I try to teach my heart not to want nothing it can't have.”
“I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.”
“The more I wonder, the more I love.”
“I'm mad about the waste that happens when people who love each other can't even bring themselves to talk.”
“Surely the earth can be saved by all the people who insist on love.”
“And I thank God let me gain understanding enough to know love can't be halted just cause some peoples moan and groan.
Alice Walker quotes on writing
“Writing poems is my way of celebrating with the world that I have not committed suicide the evening before.”
“If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.”
“I've found, in my own writing, that a little hatred, keenly directed, is a useful thing.”
“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.”
“A writer's heart, a poet's heart, an artist's heart, a musician's heart is always breaking. It is through that broken window that we see the world...”
“Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence. ”
“I've found, in my own writing, that a little hatred, keenly directed, is a useful thing.”
Famous Alice Walker quotes
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.”
“Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.”
“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.”
“Any God I ever found in church, I brought in myself.
“In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.”
“People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.”
“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.”
“we are the ones we have been waiting for”
“Laughter isn't even the other side of tears. It is tears turned inside out. Truly the suffering is great, here on earth. We blunder along, shredded by our mistakes, bludgeoned by our faults. Not having a clue where the dark path leads us. But on the whole, we stumble along bravely, don't you think?”
“Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.”
“What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.”
“Time moves slowly, but passes quickly.”
“Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.”
“When the ax came into the forest the trees said the handle is one of us.”
“Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.”
“What you hope for, you also fear. ”
“I have fought and kicked and fasted and prayed and cursed and cried myself to the point of existing.”
“If you're silent for a long time, people just arrive in your mind.”
“it is this broken road with pitfalls and sharp turns and unexpected traverses that has brought me joy and adventure. ” (58)
“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."
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“Resistance is the secret of joy!”
“When life descends into the pit I must become my own candle Willingly burning myself To light up the darkness Around me.”
“To acknowledge our ancestors means we are aware that we did not make ourselves...We remember them because it is an easy thing to forget: that we are not the first to suffer, rebel, fight, love, and die.”
“There is so much we don't understand. And so much unhappiness that comes because of that.”
“It is the need to be remembered that has caused most of the trouble in the world,” (64)
“I live a very secluded life, a very contemplative life and a very meditative one. That is my ideal life.”
“If my mind is crowded with ideas or thoughts or plans or other people’s creations there is less room for my own.”
“Long as I can spell G-o-d I got somebody along.”
“And to me, wildness means following the growth of love. Like a plant reaching through stone toward the sun-”
“All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.”