Alice Walker Quotes

born 1944 United States

Alice Malsenior Walker (born 9 February 1944) is an American author whose novel, The Color Purple, won both the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award.

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The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

The Best Liberal Quotes Ever : Why the Left is Right (2004)

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

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

The Color Purple (1982)

Activism is the rent I pay for living on the planet.

Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited.

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites or women for men.

Foreword to The Dreaded Comparison: Animal Slavery and Human Slavery (1996)

The world is changing, I said. It is no longer a world just for boys and men.

The Color Purple (1982)

Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to get attention we do, except walk?

The Color Purple (1982)

We know a roofleaf is not Jesus Christ, but in its own humble way, is it not God?

The Color Purple (1982)

The harm that you do to others is the harm that you do to yourself and you cannot think then that you can cause wars in other parts of the world and destroy people and drone them without this having a terrible impact on your own soul and your own consciousness.

I think Africans are very much like white people back home, in that they think they are the center of the universe and that everything that is done is done for them.

The Color Purple (1982)

I don’t know nothing, I think. And glad of it.

The Color Purple (1982)

Niggers going to Africa, he said to his wife. Now I have seen everything.

The Color Purple (1982)

The little I knew about my own self wouldn’t have filled a thimble!

The Color Purple (1982)

I think unless the people are given information about what is happening to them, they will die in ignorance. And i think that's the big sin. I mean if there is such a thing as a sin, that's it, to destroy people and not have them have a clue about how this is happening.

He has told me he likes men as well as he likes women, which seems only natural, he says, since he is the offspring of two sexes as well as two races. No one is surprised he is biracial; why should they be surprised he is bisexual? This is an explanation I have never heard and cannot entirely grasp; it seems too logical for my brain.

Possessing the Secret of Joy (1992)

But please remember, especially in these times of group-think and the right-on chorus, that no person is your friend (or kin) who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow and be perceived as fully blossomed as you were intended.

In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose (1983)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Alice Walker (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.