Top 380 Alice Walker Quotes (2023 Update)
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51. “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

52. “No song or poem will bear my mother’s name. Yet so many of the stories that I write, that we all write, are my mother’s stories.”

— Alice Walker

53. “The Animals of the planet are in desperate peril and they are fully aware of this. No less than human beings are doing in all parts of the world, they are seeking sanctuary.”

— Alice Walker

54. “She thought of how precious it was to be able to know another person over many years. There was incomparable richness in it.”

— Alice Walker

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

— Alice Walker

56. “Ignorance, arrogance, and racism have bloomed as Superior Knowledge in all too many universities.”

— Alice Walker

57. “To acknowledge our ancestors means we are aware that we did not make ourselves... We remember them because it is an easy thing to forget: that we are not the first to suffer, rebel, fight, love, and die.”

— Alice Walker

58. “Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited.”

— Alice Walker

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

— Alice Walker

60. “Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they’ve had forever. And they’ve been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.”

— Alice Walker

61. “What you hope for, you also fear.”

— Alice Walker

62. “I see children, all children, as humanity’s most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left.”

— Alice Walker

63. “Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.”

— Alice Walker

64. “In search of my mother’s garden, I found my own.”

— Alice Walker

65. “It is natural to want to have a future.”

— Alice Walker

66. “We’re going to have to debunk the myth that Africa is a heaven for black people – especially black women. We’ve been the mule of the world there and the mule of the world here.”

— Alice Walker

67. “Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.”

— Alice Walker

68. “Guided by my heritage of a love of beauty and a respect for strength – in search of my mother’s garden, I found my own.”

— Alice Walker

69. “All my life I had to fight... But I never thought I’d have to fight in my own house... I loves Harpo, she say. God knows I do. But I’ll kill him dead before I let him beat me.”

— Alice Walker

70. “Until you do right by me, I say, everything you even dream about will fail. I give it to him straight, just like it come to me. And it seem to come to me from the trees.”

— Alice Walker

71. “Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.”

— Alice Walker

72. “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

73. “Abortion, for many women, is more than an experience of suffering beyond anything most men will ever know, it is an act of mercy, and an act of self-defense.”

— Alice Walker

74. “If art doesn’t make us better, then what on earth is it for.”

— Alice Walker

75. “Be nobody’s darling; Be an outcast. Take the contradictions Of your life And wrap around You like a shawl, To parry stones To keep you warm.”

— Alice Walker

76. “I’m pore, I’m black, I may be ugly and can’t cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I’m here.”

— Alice Walker

77. “Oh, Celie, unbelief is a terrible thing. And so is the hurt we cause others unknowingly.”

— Alice Walker

78. “We are a people. A people do not throw their geniuses away. If they do, it is our duty as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children. If necessary, bone by bone.”

— Alice Walker

79. “Until you do right by me, I say, everything you even dream about will fail.”

— Alice Walker

80. “If you want to have a life that is worth living, a life that expresses your deepest feelings and emotions, and cares and dreams, you have to fight for it.”

— Alice Walker

81. “Writing permits me to be more than I am. Writing permits me to experience life as any number of strange creations.”

— Alice Walker

82. “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

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

— Alice Walker

84. “Yoga means to bind back, unite. To bring the body and the soul together. For this reason the practice of yoga is a holy endeavor and the teaching of it to our people a very high calling.”

— Alice Walker

85. “Laughter isn’t even the other side of tears. It is tears turned inside out. Truly the suffering is great, here on earth. We blunder along, shredded by our mistakes, bludgeoned by our faults. Not having a clue where the dark path leads us. But on the whole, we stumble along bravely, don’t you think?”

— Alice Walker

86. “You really can’t be a good artist if you can’t say what you really feel. And people may be offended, but, you know, that’s how you feel, and that is your right, and that is your gift as well.”

— Alice Walker

87. “Wish for nothing larger Than your own small heart.”

— Alice Walker

88. “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

89. “I don’t call myself a Buddhist. I’m a free spirit. I believe I’m here on earth to admire and enjoy it; that’s my religion.”

— Alice Walker

90. “Freedom, after all, is like love: the more you give to others, the more you have.”

— Alice Walker

91. “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

92. “As long as the Earth can make a spring every year, I can.”

— Alice Walker

93. “We will be ourselves and free, or die in the attempt. Harriet Tubman was not our great-grandmother for nothing.”

— Alice Walker

94. “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

95. “Abortion is an act of self-defense.”

— Alice Walker

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

— Alice Walker

97. “At menopause, a time of extremely high power and shapeshifting, we are told to behave as though nothing is happening. To continue the “game” of life as if we are still girls. We are not girls. And to continue to act as though we are robs the world and the coming generations of our insights.”

— Alice Walker

98. “The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn’t want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass.”

— Alice Walker

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

— Alice Walker

100. “The grace with which we embrace life, in spite of the pain, the sorrows, is always a measure of what has gone before.”

— Alice Walker