Alice Walker: Trending quotes (page 4)

“And I thank God let me gain understanding enough to know love can't be halted just cause some peoples moan and groan. P.238”

“Resist the temptation to think what afflicts you is peculiar to you. Have faith that what is in your consciousness can be communicated to the consciousness of all. And is, in many cases, already there.”

“Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.”

“Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.”

“A writer's heart, a poet's heart, an artist's heart, a musician's heart is always breaking. It is through that broken window that we see the world…”

“Resistance is the secret of joy!”

“I've found, in my own writing, that a little hatred, keenly directed, is a useful thing.”

“The Nature of This Flower Is to Bloom

Rebellious. Living.
Against the Elemental Crush.
A Song of Color
Blooming
For Deserving Eyes.
Blooming Gloriously
For its Self.”

“If you're silent for a long time, people just arrive in your mind.”

“Those in power must spend a lot of their time laughing at us.”

“It didn't take long to realize I didn't hardly know nothing. And that if you ast yourself why you black or a man or a woman or a bush it don't mean nothing if you don't ast why you here, period”

“Some colored people so scared of whitefolks they claim to love the cotton gin.”

“But it ain't easy, trying to do without God even if you know he ain't there, trying to do without him is a strain”

“womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender”

“The animals of the planet are in desperate peril… Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen.”

“Well, sometime Mr —— git on me pretty hard. I have to talk to Old Maker. But he my husband. I shrug my shoulders. This life soon be over, I say. Heaven last all ways.

You ought to bash Mr —— head open, she say. Think bout heaven later.”

“The only way to solace anyone who loved you in life is to be a good memory”

“I love his dear eyes in which the vulnerability and beauty of his soul can be plainly read.”

“I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ast. And that in wondering bout the big things and asting bout the big things, you learn about the little ones, almost by accident. But you never know nothing more about the big things than you start out with. The more I wonder, he say, the more I love.”