Top 380 Alice Walker Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “World wars have been fought and lost; for every war is against the world and every war against the world is lost.”

— Alice Walker

252. “What gardening teaches us is that if you plant things, they’ll come up. But you have to be willing to wait for them to bear fruit because things are seasonal.”

— Alice Walker

253. “Helped are those who laugh with a pure heart; theirs will be the company of the jolly righteous.”

— Alice Walker

254. “HELPED are those who lose their fear of death; theirs is the power to envision the future in a blade of grass.”

— Alice Walker

255. “Those in power must spend a lot of their time laughing at us.”

— Alice Walker

256. “God is inside you and inside everybody else. You come into the world with God. But only them that search for it inside find it. And sometimes it just manifest itself even if you not looking, or don’t know what you looking for. Trouble.”

— Alice Walker

257. “The infinite faith I have in people’s ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.”

— Alice Walker

258. “For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life. The writing has been really a byproduct of that.”

— Alice Walker

259. “But if by some miracle and all our struggle, the earth is spared, only justice to every living being will save humankind.”

— Alice Walker

260. “Sofia take up the clothes, straighten them out, stand by the ironing board with her hand on the iron. Sofia the kind of woman no matter what she have in her hand it look like a weapon.”

— Alice Walker

261. “His little whistle sound like it lost way down a jar, and the jar in the bottom of the creek. P. 64.”

— Alice Walker

262. “I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same, there’s a real lightheartednes s about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they’re not the same, ever again.”

— Alice Walker

263. “But if God love me, Celie, I don’t have to do all that. Unless I want to. There’s a lot of other things I can do that I speck God likes. Like what? I ast. Oh, she say. I can lay back and just admire stuff. Be happy. Have a good time.”

— Alice Walker

264. “Animals were not made for us, or our use. They have their own use, which is just being who they are.”

— Alice Walker

265. “Even now, I find that no matter what has happened, I still have that trust. I have a lot of trust, that people can be better than they are.”

— Alice Walker

266. “People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don’t.”

— Alice Walker

267. “Resist the temptation to think what afflicts you is peculiar to you. Have faith that what is in your consciousness can be communicated to the consciousness of all. And is, in many cases, already there.”

— Alice Walker

268. “Any God I ever found in church, I brought in myself.”

— Alice Walker

269. “My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father’s head. It taught me about women defending themselves and not collapsing in a heap.”

— Alice Walker

270. “HELPED are those who love all the colors of all the human beings, as they love all the colors of the animals and plants; none of their children, nor any of their ancestors, nor any parts of themselves, shall be hidden from them.”

— Alice Walker

271. “It’s so clear that you have to cherish everyone.”

— Alice Walker

272. “Aside from the fact that they say it’s unhealthy, my fat ain’t never been no trouble. Mens always have loved me. My kids ain’t never complained. Plus they’s fat.”

— Alice Walker

273. “We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.”

— Alice Walker

274. “If she come, I be happy. If she don’t, I be content.”

— Alice Walker

275. “If a person is hit hard enough, even if she stands, she falls.”

— Alice Walker

276. “I am not convinced that men and women were ever meant to share the same house, though some people can do it beautifully.”

— Alice Walker

277. “Then he say something that really surprise me cause it so thoughtful and common sense. When it come to what folks do together with they bodies, he say, anybody’s guess is as good as mine. But when you talk about love I don’t have to guess. I have love and I have been love. And I thank God he let me gain understanding enough to know love can’t be halted just cause some peoples moan and groan.”

— Alice Walker

278. “No one escapes a time in life when the arrow of sorrow, of anger, of despair pierces the heart. For many of us, there is the inevitable need to circle the wound. It is often such a surprise to find it there, in us, when we had assumed arrows so painful only landed in the hearts of other people. Some of us spend decades screaming at the archer. Or at least for longer periods than are good for us. How to take the arrow out of the heart? How to learn to relieve our own pain? That is the question.”

— Alice Walker

279. “Tashi’s mother and father were just here. They are upset because she spends so much time with Olivia. She is changing, becoming quiet and too thoughtful, they say. She is becoming someone else; her face is beginning to show the spirit of one of her aunts who was sold to the trader because she no longer fit into village life. This aunt refused to marry the man chosen for her. Refused to bow to the chief. Did nothing but lay up, crack cola nuts between her teeth and giggle.”

— Alice Walker

280. “Dear Nettie, I don’t write to God no more, I write to you.”

— Alice Walker

281. “Anyhow, I say, the God I been praying and writing to is a man. And act just like all the other mens I know. Trifling, forgitful, and lowdown.”

— Alice Walker

282. “Let ’im hear me, I say. If he ever listened to poor colored women the world would be a different place, I can tell you.”

— Alice Walker

283. “Now I understand that all great teachers love us. This is essentially what makes them great. I also understand that it is this love that never dies, and that, having once experienced it, we have the confidence always exhibited by well-loved humans, to continue extending this same love.”

— Alice Walker

284. “God is different to us now, after all these years in Africa. More spirit than ever before, and more internal. Most people think he has to look like something or someone- a roofleaf or Christ- but we don’t. And not being tied to what God looks like, frees us.”

— Alice Walker

285. “It must become a right of every person to die of old age. And if we secure this right for ourselves, we can, coincidentally, assure it for the planet.”

— Alice Walker

286. “I think the War on Terror is really absurd, especially coming from a country that is founded on terrorism.”

— Alice Walker

287. “May our call be from this day onward, to all the creatures and beings of the planet who have no voice: I have come to you, for you, to be a witness to your life and to extend whatever understanding and happiness I can.”

— Alice Walker

288. “Creation is a sustained period of bliss.”

— Alice Walker

289. “It seems wiser to do as hermit crabs do, find a shell and inhabit it.”

— Alice Walker

290. “People who think nonviolence is easy don’t realize that it’s a spiritual discipline that requires a great deal of strength, growth, and purging of the self so that one can overcome almost any obstacle for the good of all without being concerned about one’s own welfare.”

— Alice Walker

291. “How we come into this world, how we are ushered in, met, and hopefully embraced upon arrival, impacts the whole of our time on earth.”

— Alice Walker

292. “Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also.”

— Alice Walker

293. “I realized I was a country person – I’m just not used to small spaces.”

— Alice Walker

294. “If she come, I be happy. If she don’t, I be content. And then I figure this the lesson I was suppose tolearn.”

— Alice Walker

295. “As you sit, make peace also with the reality that, after you die, it won’t matter to you how you are remembered; you will not be here to experience it. All the grand things that you do or say, all the skyscrapers you build and cover with gold, your elegant tombstone, all will be completely forgotten eventually. Even your children, and their children, too, will be forgotten. That being so, perhaps it is best to begin to erase your presence well before you leave the scene.”

— Alice Walker

296. “Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. And I think all the other folks did too. They come to church to share God, not find God.”

— Alice Walker

297. “I love children say Sofia. But all the colored women that say they love yours is lying. They don’t love Reynolds Stanley any more than I do. But if you so badly raise as to ast ’em, what you expect them to say? Some colored people so scared of whitefolks they claim to love the cotton gin.”

— Alice Walker

298. “Drew Dellinger is a deep and courageous poet. How lucky we are!”

— Alice Walker

299. “HELPED are those who live in quietness, knowing neither brand name nor fad; they shall live every day as if in eternity, and each moment shall be as full as it is long.”

— Alice Walker

300. “What I am really interested in is that I want people to be thinking in other ways – to stop thinking they have to remain glued to a system that has failed and to ideas about society that’s necessarily about being run by Democrats or Republicans.”

— Alice Walker