“Be nobody's darling;Be an outcast.Take the contradictionsOf your lifeAnd wrap aroundYou like a shawl,To parry stonesTo keep you warm.”Alice Walker
“Look closely at the present you are constructing:it should look like the future you are dreaming.”Alice Walker
“Never offer your heartto someone who eats heartswho finds heartmeatdeliciousbut not rarewho sucks the juicesdrop by dropand bloody-chinnedgrinslike a God.”Alice Walker
“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
“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 PurpleSource: The Color Purple
“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 JoyPossessing the Secret of Joy (1992).
“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 PurpleThe Color Purple (1982)
“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 PurpleThe Color Purple (1982)