Alice Walker Quotes
Welcome to my Alice Walker quotes. She is a fighter of gender and race discrimination through her writing. I admire her passion for fighting prejudice and all it represents. As a black woman she is my inspiration.born February 9, 1944
American Writer and poet well known for her pulitzer prize winning novel The Color Purple
- ALICE WALKER QUOTE OF THE PAGE
Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself. - No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
- All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.
- I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.
- 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.
- The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
- 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.
- I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.
- For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.
- People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.
- What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.
- In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.
- I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.
- Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.
- Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.
- To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.
- Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.
- Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.
- The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.
- People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don't.
Thank you for passing by my Alice Walker quotes. Till next time.
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