Quotes by Alice Walker
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.
Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me.
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.
Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful.
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.
Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.
Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.
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?
I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.
How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.
In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.
I know, in my soul, that to eat a creature who is raised to be eaten, and who never has a chance to be a real being, is unhealthy. It's like...you're just eating misery. You're eating a bitter life.
The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
But if by some miracle and all our struggle, the earth is spared, only justice to every living being will save humankind."
I think it ticks God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.
If I could live as a tree, as a river, as the moon, as the sun, as a star, as the earth, as a rock, I would. ...Writing permits me to experien...
Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise.
Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.
The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen.
In order to be able to live in America I must be unafraid to live anywhere in it, and I must be able to live in the fashion and with whom I choose.
Animals of the word exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than blacks were made for whites or women for men.
Somewhere in the bible it say Jesus hair was like lamb's wool, I say. Well, say Shug, if he came to any of these churches we talking bout he'd have to have it conked before anybody paid him any attention. The last thing niggers want to think about they God is that his hair kinky.
The sight of a Black nun strikes their sentimentality; and, as I am unalterably rooted in native ground, they consider me a work of primitive art, housed in a magical color; the incarnation of civilized, anti-heathenism, and the fruit of a triumphing idea.
