Alice Walker: Trending quotes (page 3)

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”