3 December 2020 Alice Walker I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.
3 December 2020 Alice Walker The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.
3 December 2020 Alice Walker I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.
3 December 2020 Alice Walker The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.
3 December 2020 Alice Walker Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Alice Walker The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.
3 December 2020 Alice Walker In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.
3 December 2020 Alice Walker To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.
3 December 2020 Alice Walker As you know from school, it’s when you have not prepared for the test that you have the fear of failing. And if you have prepared, even if you fail, you’ve done your best.
3 December 2020 Alice Walker 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Alice Walker 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.
3 December 2020 Alice Walker How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
3 December 2020 Alice Walker In my work and in myself I reflect black people, women and men, as I reflect others. One day even the most self-protective ones will look into the mirror I provide and not be afraid.
3 December 2020 Alice Walker 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.
3 December 2020 Alice Walker 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.
3 December 2020 Alice Walker I don’t call myself a Buddhist. I’m a free spirit. I believe I’m here on earth to admire and enjoy it that’s my religion.
3 December 2020 Alice Walker Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.
3 December 2020 Alice Walker All History is current all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Alice Walker I’m sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power.
3 December 2020 Alice Walker 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.
3 December 2020 Alice Walker As an elder of the Americas and of the rest of the planet, it is my responsibility to care for and protect, to the best of my ability, the young.
3 December 2020 Alice Walker Fiction is such a world of freedom, it’s wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.
3 December 2020 Alice Walker No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
