Alice Walker Quotes

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

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.

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.

If you're silent for a long time, people just arrive in your mind.

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

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

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ask. And that in wondering bout the big things and asking bout the big things, you learn about the little ones, almost by accident. But you never know nothing more about the big things than you start out with. The more I wonder, the more I love.

What she showed me was, Yes, I am Grandmother as she is; there is no separation, really, between us. And that, on this planet, Grandmother Earth, there is no higher authority. That our inseparability is why the planet will be steered to safety by Grandmother/Grandmothers or it will not be steered to safety at all.

I am so happy. I got love, I got work, I got money, friends and time.

And I don't believe you dead. How can you be dead if I still feel you? Maybe, like God, you changed into something different that I'll have to speak to in a different way, but you not dead to me Nettie. And never will you be.

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

But it ain't easy, trying to do without God even if you know he ain't there, trying to do without him is a strain

Because
you rubbed
my shoulder
last night
a poem
traveled down
my arm.

But I don't know how to fight. All I know how to do is stay alive.

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

Time moves slowly, but passes quickly.

When I was a child I read books for entertainment and information; I now think of books as lifeboats.

Horses make a landscape look beautiful.