Alice Walker Quotes

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...

By Alice Walker

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

By Alice Walker

I think it ticks God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.

By Alice Walker

In search of my mother's garden, I found my own

By 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.

By Alice Walker

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.

By 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?

By Alice Walker

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.

By Alice Walker

In search of my mother’s garden, I found my own.

By 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.

By Alice Walker

In search of my mother's garden I found my own.

By Alice Walker

Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.

By Alice Walker

Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise.

By Alice Walker

The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.

By Alice Walker

Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.

By Alice Walker

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.

By Alice Walker

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.

By Alice Walker

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.

By Alice Walker

But if by some miracle and all our struggle, the earth is spared, only justice to every living being will save humankind.'

By Alice Walker

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.

By Alice Walker

As we talked of freedom and justice one day for all, we sat down to steaks. I am eating misery, I thought, as I took the first bite. And spit it out.

By Alice Walker

Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.

By 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

By Alice Walker

The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.

By Alice Walker

The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying'

By Alice Walker

The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen.

By Alice Walker

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

By Alice Walker

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.

By Alice Walker

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

By Alice Walker

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

By Alice Walker