The Color Purple By Alice Walker Quotes

#1. I just feel that 'The Color Purple,' which was my 10th book, was a true gift from my ancestors.

Alice Walker

#2. 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

#3. There's a lot of Americans, black and white, who think that we've arrived where we need to be and nothing else needs to be done and affirmative action needs to be dismantled.

Spike Lee

#4. We are all made from star dust and we will all return to star dust, like a cosmic palindrome.

A.S. King

#5. Long as I can spell G-o-d I got somebody along.

Alice Walker

#6. I'm not leaving, Kitten. You're going to do this.
My mouth opened as did the door behind us. Stomach dropping, I turned to see Mom standing there in all her fuzzy-bunny pajama glory. Oh, for the love of God.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#7. I think 'The Color Purple' is so bursting with love, the need for connection, the showing of the need for connection around the globe.

Alice Walker

#8. If you feel you can not do it, look at me, think and say I can do that too.

Anyaele Sam Chiyson

#9. The world is changing. It is no longer a world just for boys and men

Alice Walker

#10. [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

#11. You a low down dog is what's wrong. It's time to leave you and enter into the creation. And your dead body just the welcome mat I need.

Alice Walker

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

Alice Walker

#13. Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.

Paul Tillich

#14. Trying to chase that old white man out of my head. I been so busy thinking bout him I never truly notice nothing God make. Not a blade of corn (how it do that?) not the color purple (where it come from?). Not the little wildflowers. Nothing.

Alice Walker

#15. The fact is, there's a great deal of hair-splitting fussiness when it comes to fly-fishing, most of it as silly as a top hat.

Justin Cronin

#16. Dear Nettie, I don't write to God no more, I write to you.

Alice Walker