Top 380 Alice Walker Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “Some people think politeness is an invitation to invade.”

— Alice Walker

152. “Decide that you know what you think is good for you and go ahead and do it.”

— Alice Walker

153. “I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ask. And that in wondering bout the big things and asking bout the big things, you learn about the little ones, almost by accident. But you never know nothing more about the big things than you start out with. The more I wonder, he say, the more I love. And people start to love you back, I bet, I say.”

— Alice Walker

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

— Alice Walker

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

— Alice Walker

156. “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

157. “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

158. “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

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

— Alice Walker

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

— Alice Walker

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

— Alice Walker

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

— Alice Walker

163. “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

164. “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

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

— Alice Walker

166. “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

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

— Alice Walker

168. “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

169. “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

170. “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

171. “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

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

— Alice Walker

173. “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

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

— Alice Walker

175. “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

176. “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

177. “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

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

— Alice Walker

179. “Who am I to tell her who to love? My job just to love her good and true myself. P. 237.”

— Alice Walker

180. “I am an expression of the divine, just like a peach is, just like a fish is.”

— Alice Walker

181. “My first step from the old white man was trees. Then air. Then birds. Then other people. But one day when I was sitting quiet and feeling like a motherless child, which I was, it come to me: that feeling of being part of everything, not separate at all. I knew that if I cut a tree, my arm would bleed. And I laughed and I cried and I run all around the house. I knew just what it was. In fact, when it happen, you can’t miss it.”

— Alice Walker

182. “It’s essential that we understand that taking care of the planet will be done as we take care of ourselves. You know that you can’t really make much of a difference in things until you change yourself.”

— Alice Walker

183. “The years have come and gone without a single word from you. Only the sky above us do we hold in common. I look at it often as if, somehow, reflected from its immensities, I will one day find myself gazing into your eyes.”

— Alice Walker

184. “And I thank God let me gain understanding enough to know love can’t be halted just cause some peoples moan and groan. P.238.”

— Alice Walker

185. “How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.”

— Alice Walker

186. “Writing poems is my way of celebrating with the world that I have not committed suicide the evening before.”

— Alice Walker

187. “The Lord don’t like ugly, she say. And he ain’t stuck on pretty.”

— Alice Walker

188. “As I get older, I realize that the thing I value the most is good-heartednes s.”

— Alice Walker

189. “This life soon be over, I say. Heaven last all ways.”

— Alice Walker

190. “I believe that the truth of any subject only comes when all sides of the story are put together.”

— Alice Walker

191. “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.”

— Alice Walker

192. “But it ain’t easy, trying to do without God even if you know he ain’t there, trying to do without him is a strain.”

— Alice Walker

193. “The only way to solace anyone who loved you in life is to be a good memory.”

— Alice Walker

194. “Some colored people so scared of whitefolks they claim to love the cotton gin.”

— Alice Walker

195. “My heart hurt so much I can’t believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this? But I’m a woman. I love you, I say. Whatever happen, whatever you do, I love you.”

— Alice Walker

196. “Find yourself a cup of tea; the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things. Saki Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.”

— Alice Walker

197. “There is a way that the men speak to women that reminds me too much of Pa. They listen just long enough to issue instructions. They don’t even look at women when women are speaking. They look at the ground and bend their heads toward the ground.”

— Alice Walker

198. “There is no graceful way to carry hatred.”

— Alice Walker

199. “I am so happy. I got love, I got work, I got money, friends and time.”

— Alice Walker

200. “My life is not to be somebody else’s impact – you know what I mean?”

— Alice Walker