Top 380 Alice Walker Quotes (2023 Update)
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101. “Nature has created us with the capacity to know God, to experience God.”

— Alice Walker

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

— Alice Walker

103. “Fiction is such a world of freedom, it’s wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.”

— Alice Walker

104. “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

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

— Alice Walker

106. “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

107. “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

108. “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

109. “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

110. “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

111. “Books became my world because the world I was in was very hard.”

— Alice Walker

112. “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

113. “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

114. “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

115. “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

116. “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

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

— Alice Walker

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

— Alice Walker

119. “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

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

— Alice Walker

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

— Alice Walker

122. “Some people think politeness is an invitation to invade.”

— Alice Walker

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

— Alice Walker

124. “Everything want to be loved. Us sing and dance and holler, just trying to be loved.”

— Alice Walker

125. “Even as I hold you, I am letting you go.”

— Alice Walker

126. “I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.”

— Alice Walker

127. “As we talked of freedom and justice one day for all, we sat down to steaks. I am eating misery, I thought, as I took the first bite. And spit it out.”

— Alice Walker

128. “Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.”

— Alice Walker

129. “Well, sometime Mr – – git on me pretty hard. I have to talk to Old Maker. But he my husband. I shrug my shoulders. This life soon be over, I say. Heaven last all ways. You ought to bash Mr – – head open, she say. Think bout heaven later.”

— Alice Walker

130. “You a low down dog is what’s wrong. It’s time to leave you and enter into the creation. And your dead body just the welcome mat I need.”

— Alice Walker

131. “A grown child is a dangerous thing.”

— Alice Walker

132. “The world is changing. It is no longer a world just for boys and men.”

— Alice Walker

133. “Every time I conjure up a rock, I throw it.”

— Alice Walker

134. “I don’t know. I imagine good teaching as a circle of earnest people sitting down to ask each other meaningful questions. I don’t see it as a handing down of answers...”

— Alice Walker

135. “Dear God. Dear stars, dear trees, dear sky, dear peoples. Dear Everything. Dear God.”

— Alice Walker

136. “Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.”

— Alice Walker

137. “The forest is the first cathedral. I felt that from the time I was a child. I credit my mother with that. I used to think it came from her Native-American side. Whichever it was, she instinctively connected with nature, and taught me that.”

— Alice Walker

138. “You got to fight them, Celie, she say. I can’t do it for you. You got to fight them for yourself. I don’t say nothing. I think bout Nettie, dead. She fight, she run away. What good it do? I don’t fight, I stay where I’m told. But I’m alive.”

— Alice Walker

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

— Alice Walker

140. “In each of us, there is a little voice that knows exactly which way to go. And I learned very early to listen to it, even though it has caused so much grief and havoc, and I think that is the only answer.”

— Alice Walker

141. “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.”

— Alice Walker

142. “War will stop when we no longer praise it, or give it any attention at all. Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited.”

— Alice Walker

143. “Man corrupt everything, say Shug. He on your box of grits, in your head, and all over the radio. He try to make you think he everywhere. Soon as you think he everywhere, you think he God. But he ain’t. Whenever you trying to pray, and man plop himself on the other end of it, tell him to git lost, say Shug. Conjure up the flowers, wind, water, a big rock.”

— Alice Walker

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

— Alice Walker

145. “It all I can do not to cry. I make myself wood I say to myself, Celie, you a tree. That’s how I come to know trees fear man.”

— Alice Walker

146. “We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that’s going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.”

— Alice Walker

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

— Alice Walker

148. “It didn’t take long to realize I didn’t hardly know nothing. And that if you ast yourself why you black or a man or a woman or a bush it don’t mean nothing if you don’t ast why you here, period.”

— Alice Walker

149. “Every soul is to be cherished, every flower is to bloom.”

— Alice Walker

150. “Never offer your heart to someone who eats hearts who finds heartmeat delicious but not rare who sucks the juices drop by drop and bloody-chinned grins like a God.”

— Alice Walker