Alice Walker: Trending quotes

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

“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.”

“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.”

“Horses make a landscape look beautiful.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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