Top 380 Alice Walker Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Every soul is to be cherished, every flower is to bloom.”

— Alice Walker

102. “People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.”

— Alice Walker

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

— Alice Walker

104. “I think colors are miraculous. We live in a universe that is extremely creative and magical. We become happier as we appreciate these things in nature.”

— Alice Walker

105. “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

106. “I believe God is everything, say Shug. Everything that is or ever was or ever will be. And when you can feel that, and be happy to feel that, you’ve found It.”

— Alice Walker

107. “Some people don’t understand that it is the nature of the eye to have seen forever, and the nature of the mind to recall anything that was ever known.”

— Alice Walker

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

— Alice Walker

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

— Alice Walker

110. “How anyone cannot see that Nature is God is amazing to me: that they’d rather worship something that can only exist, really, in their own minds.”

— Alice Walker

111. “Every stitch i sew will be a kiss.”

— Alice Walker

112. “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

113. “There is always a moment in any kind of struggle when one feels in full bloom. Vivid. Alive. One might be blown to bits in such a moment and still be at peace.”

— Alice Walker

114. “Always with me was the inner twin: my true nature, my true self. It is timeless, free, compassionate and in love with whatever is natural to me.”

— Alice Walker

115. “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

116. “Being happy is not the only happiness.”

— Alice Walker

117. “HELPED are those whose every act is a prayer for peace; on them depends the future of the world.”

— Alice Walker

118. “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.”

— Alice Walker

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

— Alice Walker

120. “What a burden to think one is conceived in sin rather than in pleasure; that one is born into evil rather than into joy.”

— Alice Walker

121. “What is always needed in the appreciation of art, or life, is the larger perspective. Connections made, or at least attempted, where none existed before, the straining to encompass in one’s glance at the varied world the common thread, the unifying theme through immense diversity, a fearlessness of growth, of search, of looking, that enlarges the private and the public world. And yet, in our particular society, it is the narrowed and narrowing view of life that often wins.”

— Alice Walker

122. “HELPED are those whose ever act is a prayer for harmony in the Universe, for they are the restorers of balance to our planet. To them will be given the insight that every good act done anywhere in the cosmos welcomes the life of an animal or a child.”

— Alice Walker

123. “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.”

— Alice Walker

124. “It’s so important to unclutter the mind. For me, creativity is greatly impeded just by the chatter and visual clutter of life. It’s really important to have a space that is really clear for whatever is emerging to come.”

— Alice Walker

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

— Alice Walker

126. “Politically, the world is so confused right now – there’s so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.”

— Alice Walker

127. “Whether we reach this inner state of recognized divinity through prayer, meditation, dancing, swimming, walking, feeding the hungry or enriching the impoverished is immaterial. We will be doubly bereft without some form of practice that connects us, in a caring way, to what begins to feel like a dissolving world.”

— Alice Walker

128. “Well, capitalism is a big problem, because with capitalism you’re just going to keep buying and selling things until there’s nothing else to buy and sell, which means gobbling up the planet.”

— Alice Walker

129. “You know, one race will not be a survivor if the other one dies, and that’s something that we should think about.”

— Alice Walker

130. “Artists are messengers whose responsibility is to unite the world – a faith that will lead not to destruction but to transformation.”

— Alice Walker

131. “I don’t know nothing, I think. And glad of it.”

— Alice Walker

132. “Health is our culture; anything that interferes with it is our bondage.”

— Alice Walker

133. “If you’re silent for a long time, people just arrive in your mind.”

— Alice Walker

134. “Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom.”

— Alice Walker

135. “I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.”

— Alice Walker

136. “There’s something in all of us that wants a medal for what we have done. That wants to be appreciated.”

— Alice Walker

137. “When you are active, and you must know this so well, that the more you are active, the more you see, the more you go to see. You know, you are curious. One thing leads to another thing, and it gets deeper and deeper, too. And there’s no end to it.”

— Alice Walker

138. “I can’t fix my mouth to say how I feel.”

— Alice Walker

139. “HELPED are those who love the entire cosmos rather than their own tiny country, city, or farm, for to them will be shown the unbroken web of life and the meaning of infinity.”

— Alice Walker

140. “You don’t really stay attached to things. Life goes on, so you don’t really sit around and think about how they are relevant to other people. You hope that whatever you create will be relevant.”

— Alice Walker

141. “I’m thinking of the moment something dies and how we instinctively know it. And of how we try not to know what we know because we do not yet understand how we are to negotiate change.”

— Alice Walker

142. “It’s better to have your blackness taken away than to stand there and lie about who you actually are. That’s the trap.”

— Alice Walker

143. “I had assumed that the Earth, the spirit of the Earth, noticed exceptions-those who wantonly damage it and those who do not. But the Earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.”

— Alice Walker

144. “We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.”

— Alice Walker

145. “There’s an ecstatic side to writing. It’s like jazz. It just has a life.”

— Alice Walker

146. “Just be what it is that you are, and that is just fine. You don’t have to be what you’re not in any way. Live that and live that fully, and that is where you discover ecstasy. You can’t really have ecstasy as something other than yourself.”

— Alice Walker

147. “The protection of evil must be the most self-destructive job.”

— Alice Walker

148. “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.”

— Alice Walker

149. “HELPED are those who are shown the existence of the Creator’s magic in the Universe; they shall experience delight and astonishment without ceasing.”

— Alice Walker

150. “In order to be able to live at all in America I must be unafraid to live anywhere in it, and I must be able to live in the fashion and with whom I choose.”

— Alice Walker