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“Time moves slowly, but passes quickly.”

Alice Walker book The Color Purple

Source: The Color Purple

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

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

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

Source: Revolutionary Petunias

“People think pleasing God is all God care 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

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

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

“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

“Horses make a landscape look beautiful.”

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

Alice Walker book The Color Purple

The Color Purple (1982)

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

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

“Any God I ever found in church, I brought in myself.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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.”

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.”

“… 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