Alice Walker: Quotes about love

“I'm mad about the waste that happens when people who love each other can't even bring themselves to talk.”

“Everything want to be loved. Us sing and dance and holler, just trying to be loved.”

“Everything want to be loved.”

“The more I wonder, the more I love.”

“Surely the earth can be saved
by all the people
who insist
on love.”

“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?”

“(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.”

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

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

“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”

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

“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.”

“I want a grown-up attitude to Cuba, for instance, a country and people I love. I want an end to the war immediately, and I want the soldiers to be encouraged to destroy their weapons and drive themselves out of Iraq. I want the Israeli government to be made accountable for its behaviour to the Palestinians, and I want the people of the US to cease acting as if they don't understand what is going on. But most of all I want someone with the confidence to talk to anyone, "enemy" or "friend", and this Obama has shown he can do.”