Alice Walker quotes

„I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. People think pleasing God is all God cares about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.“

—  Alice Walker, book The Color Purple

Source: The Color Purple

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

—  Alice Walker, book The Color Purple

Source: The Color Purple (1982)

„Be nobody's darling;
Be an outcast.
Take the contradictions
Of your life
And wrap around
You like a shawl,
To parry stones
To keep you warm.“

—  Alice Walker

„I'm mad about the waste that happens when people who love each other can't even bring themselves to talk.“

—  Alice Walker, book The Temple of My Familiar

Source: The Temple of My Familiar

„Even as I hold you, I am letting you go.“

—  Alice Walker

„No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.“

—  Alice Walker

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

—  Alice Walker

As quoted in The Best Liberal Quotes Ever : Why the Left is Right (2004) by William P. Martin, p. 173.

„Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.“

—  Alice Walker

Source: Hard Times Require Furious Dancing: New Poems

„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.“

—  Alice Walker

Foreword to The Dreaded Comparison: Animal Slavery and Human Slavery (1996) by Marjorie Spiegel, p. 14 http://books.google.com/books?ei=je4zTPjrBcmTnQfXmMCLBA&ct=result&id=8u_tAAAAMAAJ&dq=dreaded+comparison+%22exist+for+their+own%22&q=%22exist+for+their+own%22.

„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

„What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.“

—  Alice Walker

„… have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show. 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, book The Color Purple

Source: The Color Purple

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

—  Alice Walker

From the film poster for Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth.

„Everything want to be loved. Us sing and dance and holler, just trying to be loved.“

—  Alice Walker, book The Color Purple

Source: The Color Purple

„Time moves slowly, but passes quickly.“

—  Alice Walker, book The Color Purple

Source: The Color Purple

„Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.“

—  Alice Walker

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

—  Alice Walker

Source: Revolutionary Petunias

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

—  Alice Walker

„Look closely at the present you are constructing:
it should look like the future you are dreaming.“

—  Alice Walker