Alice Walker Quotes

Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me.

Horses make a landscape look beautiful.

To acknowledge our ancestors means we are aware that we did not make ourselves, that the line stretches all the way back, perhaps to God; or to Gods. We remember them because it is an easy thing to forget: that we are not the first to suffer, rebel, fight, love and die. The grace with which we embrace life, in spite of the pain, the sorrow, is always a measure of what has gone before.

Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.

In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.

The nature of this flower is to bloom.

Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.

Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.

People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.

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

Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?

Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.

You must learn to love only that which cannot be stolen.

Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.

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.

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.

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.

If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.

Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.

The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen.

Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.

Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams.

I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.

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.

Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful.

All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.

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

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.

The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'

It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.

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

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.

Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.

It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's 'mature' critics often are.

The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.