Alice Walker quotes

 quotes - Propaganda is amazing. People can be led to believe anything.

“Propaganda is amazing. People can be led to believe anything.”

— Alice Walker

 quotes - It is important to remember yourself.

“It is important to remember yourself.”

— Alice Walker

 quotes - I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

“I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.”

— Alice Walker

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

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

— Alice Walker

“My family was a poor farming family, and we lived under absolute segregation.”

— Alice Walker

“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.”

— Alice Walker

“Some people are painters, and some are ballet dancers, and I'm a writer.”

— Alice Walker

“I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.”

— Alice Walker

“I think that wealthy white people would like to have a country that resembles the Fifties, when all the minorities were tucked away in ghettos and paid in very low wages but on the surface it was very bright and shiny and free and the rest of the world would look on it longingly.”

— Alice Walker

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

— Alice Walker

“Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.”

— Alice Walker

“Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.”

— Alice Walker

“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

“Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it's a good place that we're all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it.”

— Alice Walker

“I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America's really large shadow and that's not all that bad.”

— Alice Walker

“The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.”

— Alice Walker

“The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.”

— Alice Walker

“My parents taught me service - not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.”

— Alice Walker

“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

“Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer will we be an inarticulate and ignorant humanity, confused by our enslavement to superior cruelty and weaponry.”

— Alice Walker

“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

“I continue to care for President Obama and for his family. I think that in many ways they are very courageous people, and I honor that, because I know what it means to live as a black person in a racist America.”

— Alice Walker

“In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you've become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that's the height of intelligence.”

— Alice Walker

“In the summer of 1966, I went to Mississippi to be in the heart of the civil-rights movement, helping people who had been thrown off the farms or taken off the welfare roles for registering to vote. While working there, I met the civil-rights lawyer I later married - we became an interracial couple.”

— Alice Walker

“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

“The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.”

— Alice Walker

“Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.”

— Alice Walker

“Thank you is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.”

— Alice Walker

“Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.”

— Alice Walker

“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