Alice Walker

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

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

The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.
Alice Walker

For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.
Alice Walker

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

The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'
Alice Walker

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

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
Alice Walker

It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.
Alice Walker

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

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.
Alice Walker

Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.
Alice Walker

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.
Alice Walker

In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.
Alice Walker

All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.
Alice Walker

Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.
Alice Walker

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

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.
Alice Walker

It seems our fate to be incorrect (look where we live, for example), and in our incorrectness stand.
Alice Walker

The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.
Alice Walker

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.
Alice Walker

People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.
Alice Walker

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mother?s names.
Alice Walker

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

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.
Alice Walker, Wit and Wisdom of Famous American Women

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.
Alice Walker, Wit and Wisdom of Famous American Women

Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?
Alice Walker, The Color Purple

Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me.
Alice Walker, The Color Purple

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
Alice Walker, Expect Nothing

Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful.
Alice Walker, The Gospel According to Shug

Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.
Alice Walker, In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens