50 Quotes by Alice Walker
Alice Walker is an American author and activist known for her novels, short stories, and poetry that explore issues of race, gender, and social justice. She is best known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "The Color Purple," which tells the story of an African American woman in the early 20th century South. Walker's work often examines the experiences of black women and has been influential in the feminist and civil rights movements. (Bio)
Alice Walker Quotes
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow. (Quote Meaning)
Healing begins where the wound was made. (Meaning)
Surely the earth can be saved by all the people who insist on love. (Quote Meaning)
If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for. (Meaning)
Even as I hold you, I am letting you go. (Quote Meaning)
Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness. (Meaning)
Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be. (Quote Meaning)
Wish for nothing larger Than your own small heart. (Meaning)
A grown child is a dangerous thing. (Quote Meaning)
Activism is my rent for living on the planet. (Meaning)
The more I wonder, the more I love. (Quote Meaning)
Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender. (Meaning)
Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister. (Quote Meaning)
Thank you is the best prayer that anyone could say. (Meaning)
Every time I conjure up a rock, I throw it. (Quote Meaning)
Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring and because it has fresh peaches in it. (Meaning)
Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors. (Quote Meaning)
People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools. (Meaning)
I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart. (Quote Meaning)
Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. (Meaning)
It is fatal to love a god who does not love you. (Quote Meaning)
Horses make a landscape look beautiful. (Meaning)
The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society. (Quote Meaning)
In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. (Meaning)
The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. (Quote Meaning)
Resistance is the secret of joy! (Meaning)
Hard times require furious dancing. (Quote Meaning)
Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise. (Meaning)
I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. (Quote Meaning)
Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming. (Meaning)
Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul. (Quote Meaning)
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any. (Meaning)
No person is your friend who demands your silence. (Quote Meaning)
Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.
There is no graceful way to carry hatred.
Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.
We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that's going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.
I don’t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends I can be certain of.
Activism is the rent I pay for living on this planet.
To acknowledge our ancestors means we are aware that we did not make ourselves, that the line stretches all the way back, perhaps to God; or to Gods. We remember them because it is an easy thing to forget: that we are not the first to suffer, rebel, fight, love and die. The grace with which we embrace life, in spite of the pain, the sorrow, is always a measure of what has gone before.
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.
Healing begins where the wound was made.
Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears. (Meaning)
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.
The nature of this flower is to bloom. (Quote Meaning)
Criticism is painful when it's not done with love.
Time moves slowly, but passes quickly. (Meaning)
we are the ones we have been waiting for
People who work hard often work too hard. ... May we learn to honor the hammock, the siesta, the nap and the pause in all its forms.
I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.
When the ax came into the forest the trees said the handle is one of us.
Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. (Quote Meaning)
Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited.
― Alice Walker Quotes
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