Famous Quotes by Alice Walker

  • How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers’... More
  • It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one’s children will become than for the... More
  • If I could live as a tree, as a river, as the moon, as the sun, as a star, as the earth, as a... More
  • Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home. More
  • The original “crime” of “niggers” and lesbians is that they prefer themselves. More
  • All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never... More
  • It seems our fate to be incorrect ... and in our incorrectness stand. More
  • To me, the black black woman is our essential mother—the blacker she is the more us she... More
  • Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender. More
  • It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I... More
  • It seems our fate to be incorrect (look where we live, for example), and in our incorrectness stand. More
  • The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one’s people that has not... More
  • The good news may be that Nature is phasing out the white man, but the bad news is that’s who... More
  • Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence. More
  • The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn’t want to give the... More
  • There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will... More
  • She say, Celie, tell the truth, have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a... More
  • I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice... More
  • They circumcised women, little girls, in Jesus’s time. Did he know? Did the subject anger or... More
  • Somewhere in the bible it say Jesus’ hair was like lamb’s wool, I say. Well, say Shug, if he... More
  • The sight of a Black nun strikes their sentimentality; and, as I am unalterably rooted in native... More
  • Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week. More
  • As for those who think the Arab world promises freedom, the briefest study of its routine... More

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