Top 380 Alice Walker Quotes (2024 Update)

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

— Alice Walker

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

— Alice Walker

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3. “Activism is my rent for living on the planet.”

— Alice Walker

4. “Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.”

— Alice Walker

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

— Alice Walker

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6. “Time moves slowly, but passes quickly.”

— Alice Walker

7. “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

8. “I’m the most stubborn person I know.”

— Alice Walker

9. “Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.”

— Alice Walker

10. “I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it. People think pleasing God is all God cares about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.”

— Alice Walker

11. “I don’t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends I can be certain of.”

— Alice Walker

12. “No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”

— Alice Walker

13. “Be an outcast. Be pleased to walk alone.”

— Alice Walker

14. “Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.”

— Alice Walker

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

— Alice Walker

16. “Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.”

— Alice Walker

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

— Alice Walker

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18. “The more I wonder, the more I love.”

— Alice Walker

19. “When the ax came into the forest the trees said the handle is one of us.”

— Alice Walker

20. “Resistance is the secret of joy!”

— Alice Walker

21. “You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.”

— Alice Walker

22. “Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.”

— Alice Walker

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23. “My God is not a religious God. My God is nature, my God is everything there is. That’s God. Everything is God. I’m a child of that.”

— Alice Walker

24. “I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.”

— Alice Walker

25. “Human compassion is equal to human cruelty, and it is up to each of us to tip the balance.”

— Alice Walker

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

— Alice Walker

27. “Surely the earth can be saved by all the people who insist on love.”

— Alice Walker

28. “Healing begins where the wound was made.”

— Alice Walker

29. “When life descends into the pit I must become my own candle Willingly burning my self To light up the darkness around me.”

— Alice Walker

30. “I don’t focus on criticism. I prefer to praise people and the world, rather than criticize them and it.”

— Alice Walker

31. “The most important question in the world is, ‘Why is the child crying?’”

— Alice Walker

32. “Not everyone’s life is what they make it. Some people’s life is what other people make it.”

— Alice Walker

33. “Everything is already perfect. And if you can accept that everything is already perfect, the imperfection is a part of the perfection. What’s to worry about?”

— Alice Walker

34. “But I don’t know how to fight. All I know how to do is stay alive.”

— Alice Walker

35. “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

36. “I am not lesbian, I am not bisexual, I am not straight. I am just curious.”

— Alice Walker

37. “The nature of this flower is to bloom.”

— Alice Walker

38. “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

39. “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

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

— Alice Walker

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

— Alice Walker

42. “What the mind doesn’t understand, it worships or fears.”

— Alice Walker

43. “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

44. “Anything we love can be saved.”

— Alice Walker

45. “Hope is a woman who has lost her fear.”

— Alice Walker

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

— Alice Walker

47. “Only dead people need loud music, you know.”

— Alice Walker

48. “A writer’s heart, a poet’s heart, an artist’s heart, a musician’s heart is always breaking. It is through that broken window that we see the world...”

— Alice Walker

49. “Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.”

— Alice Walker

50. “Nature has created us with the capacity to know God, to experience God.”

— Alice Walker