Alice Walker citations

“Horses make a landscape look beautiful.”

“I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.”

“I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. People think pleasing God is all God cares about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.”

“Any God I ever found in church, I brought in myself.”

“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.”

“What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.”

“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.”

“Activism is the rent I pay for living on the planet.”

“Even as I hold you, I am letting you go.”

“People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.”

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

“People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.”

“We know a roofleaf is not Jesus Christ, but in its own humble way, is it not God?”

“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”

“Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.”

“The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites or women for men.”

“Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book. If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.”

“… have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show. Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. And I think all the other folks did too. They come to church to share God, not find God.”

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

“Time moves slowly, but passes quickly.”

“Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.”

“In nature, nothing is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways and they're still beautiful.”

“Look closely at the present you are constructing:
it should look like the future you are dreaming.”

“In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.”

“The nature of this flower is to bloom.”

“A grown child is a dangerous thing.”

“Everything want to be loved.”

“we are the ones we have been waiting for”

“Oh, Celie, unbelief is a terrible thing. And so is the hurt we cause others unknowingly.”