Alice Walker: Likeness

Alice Walker is American author and activist. Explore interesting quotes on likeness.
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“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.”

Alice Walker
Life

“Never offer your heart
to someone who eats hearts
who finds heartmeat
delicious
but not rare
who sucks the juices
drop by drop
and bloody-chinned
grins
like a God.”

Alice Walker
God , Heart

“Like I said… fine with me.”

Alice Walker book The Color Purple

Source: The Color Purple

“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.”

Alice Walker
Hope , Flowers , Reading

“His little whistle sound like it lost way down a jar, and the jar in the bottom of the creek. P. 64”

Alice Walker book The Color Purple

Source: The Color Purple

Way

“He has told me he likes men as well as he likes women, which seems only natural, he says, since he is the offspring of two sexes as well as two races. No one is surprised he is biracial; why should they be surprised he is bisexual? This is an explanation I have never heard and cannot entirely grasp; it seems too logical for my brain.”

Alice Walker book Possessing the Secret of Joy

Possessing the Secret of Joy (1992).

Women , Men , Sex , Nature

“They calls me yellow like yellow be my name. They calls me yellow like yellow be my name. But if yellow is a name Why aint black the same. Well, if I say Hey black girl Lord, she try to ruin my game.”

Alice Walker book The Color Purple

The Color Purple (1982)

Girl , Game

“I think Africans are very much like white people back home, in that they think they are the center of the universe and that everything that is done is done for them.”

Alice Walker book The Color Purple

The Color Purple (1982)

People , Home , Thinking , Universe