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“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?”

Alice Walker book The Color Purple

Source: The Color Purple (1982)

“Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.”

Alice Walker book The Color Purple

Source: The Color Purple

“I have fought and kicked and fasted and prayed and cursed and cried myself to the point of existing.”

“(a womanist)

3. Loves music. Loves dance. Loves the moon. Loves the Spirit. Loves love and food and roundness. Loves struggle. Loves the Folk. Loves herself. Regardless.”

Alice Walker book In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose

Source: In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose

“She thought of how precious it was to be able to know another person over many years. There was incomparable richness in it.”

“What you hope for, you also fear.”

Alice Walker book The Temple of My Familiar

Source: The Temple of My Familiar

“Animals can communicate quite well. And they do. And generally speaking, they are ignored”

“You must learn to love only that which cannot be stolen.”

“Every time I conjure up a rock, I throw it.”

Alice Walker book The Color Purple

Source: The Color Purple

“Who am I to tell her who to love? My job just to love her good and true myself. P. 237”

Alice Walker book The Color Purple

Source: The Color Purple

“I don't know. I imagine good teaching as a circle of earnest people sitting down to ask each other meaningful questions. I don't see it as a handing down of answers…”

“Like I said… fine with me.”

Alice Walker book The Color Purple

Source: The Color Purple

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

Alice Walker book The Color Purple

The Color Purple (1982)

“I'm always amazed that people will actually choose to sit in front of the television and just be savaged by stuff that belittles their intelligence.”

“it is this broken road with pitfalls and sharp turns and unexpected traverses that has brought me joy and adventure.”

“I believe God is everything, say Shug. Everything that is or ever was or ever will be. And when you can feel that, and be happy to feel that, you've found It.”

Alice Walker book The Color Purple

Source: The Color Purple

“Some people don't understand that it is the nature of the eye to have seen forever, and the nature of the mind to recall anything that was ever known.”

Alice Walker book The Temple of My Familiar

Source: The Temple of My Familiar

“Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise”

“And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.”

“We do not believe in heaven or hell…; we do not believe in eternal damnation. We believe only in the unavoidable horror of hurting others and of likewise being hurt.”

Source: By The Light Of My Father's Smile