Top 100 Quotes About Alice Walker
#1. I think even a hero is someone who has sort of the flaw or imperfection of character. I remember Alice Walker saying that once - she'd written a novel about a civil rights hero, and it was someone who had this flaw, this central flaw.
Hector Tobar
#2. I go to readings by fiction writers like Alice Walker, and I'm envious of the level of attention they generate.
Derrick Bell
#3. [On writing to Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple:] I told her I would play a Venetian blind, dirt on the floor, anything.
Whoopi Goldberg
#4. I think that's what Toni Morrison and Alice Walker understand, the secret language of women. That it's not a secret at all; men just don't know how to listen.
Marlon James
#5. I will read anything by Laura Hillenbrand, Walter Isaacson, Barbara Kingsolver, John le Carre, John Grisham, Hilary Mantel, Toni Morrison, Anna Quindlen and Alice Walker.
Hillary Clinton
#6. I loved 1930's women's pictures'films by Josef Von Sternberg or William Wyler. So, I fashioned a style out of that. The integrity and ethos of what I would write, however, came from the films of Ousmane Sembene and from reading Richard Wright, Toni Morrison, Sylvia Plath and Alice Walker.
Kola Boof
#7. Judy Collins sings about in "The Blizzard," or read Alice Walker's essay "My Father's Country Is the Poor." Each
Gloria Steinem
#8. I am very, very happy for Alice Walker.
Audre Lorde
#9. The brilliance of enslaving the spirit is that it is an invisible prison from which the inmate appears to derive some comfort.
Alice Walker
#10. I think that all people who feel that there is injustice in the world anywhere should learn as much of it as they can bear. That is our duty.
Alice Walker
#12. Nobody has ever convinced me that race is real.
Alice Walker
#13. Activism is the rent I pay for living on this planet.
Alice Walker
#14. One of the triumphs of the Civil Rights Movement is that when you travel through the South today, you do not feel overwhelmed by a residue of grievance and hate.
Alice Walker
#15. A good model of how to 'work with the enemy' internally is presented by the Dalai Lama, in his endless caretaking of his soul as he confronts the Chinese government that invaded Tibet.
Alice Walker
#16. Animals were not made for us, or our use. They have their own use, which is just being who they are.
Alice Walker
#17. After all, how can a society flourish, a country attain democracy and health, children grow into intelligent beings, sensitive to the needs of an ever more fragile and endangered planet, if half it's people are kept out of the driver's seat?
Alice Walker
#18. I never dreamed I would so enjoy having a father. It is like having another interesting mind, somewhat similar to your own but also strangely different, to rummage through.
Alice Walker
#19. And to me, wildness means following the growth of love. Like a plant reaching through stone toward the sun-
Alice Walker
#20. I could never live happily in Africa-or anywhere else-until I could live freely in Mississippi.
Alice Walker
#22. HELPED are those who laugh with a pure heart; theirs will be the company of the jolly righteous.
Alice Walker
#23. Most damage that others do us is out of fear, humiliation and pain. Those feelings occur in all of us, not just in those of us who profess a certain religious or racial devotion.
Alice Walker
#24. One thing that never ceases to amaze me, along with the growth of vegetation from the earth and of hair from the head, is the growth of understanding.
Alice Walker
#25. I've found, in my own writing, that a little hatred, keenly directed, is a useful thing.
Alice Walker
#26. Decide that you know what you think is good for you and go ahead and do it.
Alice Walker
#27. I think Africans are very much like white people back home, in that they think they are the center of the universe and that everything that is done is done for them.
Alice Walker
#28. Sometimes, reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled, and can no longer spell or write a sentence.
Alice Walker
#29. You know, one race will not be a survivor if the other one dies, and that's something that we should think about.
Alice Walker
#31. I love the women's movement, and I never thought of it as belonging to any particular segment of the population.
Alice Walker
#32. I live on the West Coast of the United States, and yet the air that I breathe is sometimes the same air that was being breathed in China the day before.
Alice Walker
#33. I am not convinced that men and women were ever meant to share the same house, though some people can do it beautifully.
Alice Walker
#34. No matter how hidden the cruelty, no matter how far off the screams of pain and terror, we live in one world. We are one people.
Alice Walker
#35. I just feel that 'The Color Purple,' which was my 10th book, was a true gift from my ancestors.
Alice Walker
#36. 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.
Alice Walker
#37. HELPED are those who live in quietness, knowing neither brand name nor fad; they shall live every day as if in eternity, and each moment shall be as full as it is long.
Alice Walker
#38. We do not admire their president.
We know why the White House is white.
We do not find their children irresistible;
We do not agree they should inherit the earth.
Alice Walker
#39. Just cause I love her don't take away none of her rights.
Alice Walker
#40. Love is big; love can hold anger, love can even hold hatred. It's about the intention of what you want it to do.
Alice Walker
#41. The artist ... is the voice of the people.
Alice Walker
#42. In order to be able to live at all 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.
Alice Walker
#43. I just like to have words that describe things correctly. Now to me, 'black feminist' does not do that. I need a word that is organic, that really comes out of the culture, that really expresses the spirit that we see in black women. And it's just ... womanish.
Alice Walker
#44. She was so quiet. So reflective. And she could erase herself, her spirit, with a swiftness that truly startled, when she knew the people around her could not respect it.
Alice Walker
#45. 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.
Alice Walker
#46. For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended.
Alice Walker
#47. 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.
Alice Walker
#48. I have fought and kicked and fasted and prayed and cursed and cried myself to the point of existing.
Alice Walker
#49. The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.
Alice Walker
#50. If you deny people their own voice, you'll have no idea of who they were.
Alice Walker
#51. What's really hard is that you could care a lot for someone and not want to live with him anymore.
Alice Walker
#52. My great-great-great-grandmother walked as a slave from Virginia to Eatonton, Georgia ... It is in memory of this walk that I chose to keep and to embrace my "maiden" name, Walker.
Alice Walker
#54. 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.
Alice Walker
#55. Why any woman give a shit what people think is a mystery to me.
Alice Walker
#56. {T}here is a point at which even grief feels absurd. And at this point, laughter gushes up to retrieve sanity.
Alice Walker
#57. I love the natural world - it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.
Alice Walker
#58. Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.
Alice Walker
#59. Whenever I met someone who seemed to know a lot about a subject, and who evinced, moreover, a certain happiness in his or her being, and if I were interested in the subject, I asked to be taught what they knew.
Alice Walker
#60. I think of the meaning of the word "testimony." Originally it named the custom of two men holding each other's testicles in a gesture of trust, later to metamorphose into the handshake.
Alice Walker
#61. I'm not lesbian; I'm not bisexual; I'm not straight. I'm just curious.
Alice Walker
#62. Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
Alice Walker
#63. We all have to start somewhere if us want to do better, an d out of self is what us have to hand
Alice Walker
#64. One child must never be set above another, even in casual conversation, not to mention in speeches that circle the globe.
Alice Walker
#65. I prefer to praise people and the world rather than criticize them and it.
Alice Walker
#66. HELPED are those whose every act is a prayer for peace; on them depends the future of the world.
Alice Walker
#67. And there was no entertainment for them at night. They were too poor to own a television set. But they seemed content. Truman with his sculpting and building the recreation center. Lynne writing poems occasionally, reading them to her friends, then tearing them up.
Alice Walker
#69. But I don't know how to fight. All I know how to do is stay alive.
Alice Walker
#70. Do not
be
like
cows
grazing
watching
the
butcher.
Alice Walker
#71. Well how you spect to make her mind? Wives is like children. You have to let 'em know who got the upper hand. Nothing can do better than a good sound beating. (Walker 2000: 34)
Alice Walker
#72. Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.
Alice Walker
#73. It is as if my self is hiding behind an iron door.
Alice Walker
#74. I can easily imagine Obama sitting down and talking to any leader - or any person - in the world, with no baggage of past servitude or race supremacy to mar their talks.
Alice Walker
#75. I think the War on Terror is really absurd, especially coming from a country that is founded on terrorism.
Alice Walker
#76. Surely the earth can be saved by all the people who insist on love.
Alice Walker
#77. 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.
Alice Walker
#78. Even now, I find that no matter what has happened, I still have that trust. I have a lot of trust, that people can be better than they are.
Alice Walker
#79. I want the Israeli government to be made accountable for its behaviour to the Palestinians, and I want the people of the U.S. to cease acting as if they don't understand what is going on.
Alice Walker
#80. You seem so clear about who you are. So certain that you are just right as you are, that for all your intelligence and maybe in spite of it, you never seem to need a second opinion.
Alice Walker
#81. The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.
Alice Walker
#82. No person is your friend (or kin) who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow and be perceived as fully blossomed as you were intended. Or who belittles in any fashion the gifts you labor so to bring into the world.
Alice Walker
#83. They be marching hand in hand, like going to war.
Alice Walker
#84. We have to wake up. We have to refuse to be a clone.
Alice Walker
#85. My family was a poor farming family, and we lived under absolute segregation.
Alice Walker
#86. The only way to solace anyone who loved you in life is to be a good memory
Alice Walker
#87. Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.
Alice Walker
#88. Choose
someone
to love
who
wouldn't even
hear
of it.
Alice Walker
#89. I can spend two hours grubbing about in my garden, dazed with pleasure and intent, and it feels like five minutes.
Alice Walker
#90. Peace: the fruit of justice done especially to the Self.
Alice Walker
#91. Many readers fail to realize this, but 'The Color Purple' is a theological text. It is about the reclamation of one's original God: the earth and nature.
Alice Walker
#92. Why should the killers of the world be "the future" and not us?
Alice Walker
#93. My parents taught me service - not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.
Alice Walker
#94. I think that indigenous women's wisdom is crucial. So much of the care of the Earth has come from the mothers. I think it's imperative we turn to their wisdom in how to take care of the planet.
Alice Walker
#95. I write not only what I want to read ... I write all the things I should have been able to read.
Alice Walker
#96. Sucking up to the biggies won't get us anywhere.
Alice Walker
#97. My mother had handed down respect for the possibilities ... and the will to grasp them.
Alice Walker
#98. I think war is so incredibly backward, and I don't think it's intelligent, and it's not sane. So why would you want to support it?
Alice Walker
#99. This life soon be over, I say. Heaven last all ways. You ought to bash Mr. _ head open, she say. Think bout heaven later.
Alice Walker
#100. Freedom, after all, is like love: the more you give to others, the more you have.
Alice Walker
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