Quotes By Alice Walker

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

It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.

It's an awful feeling to write something that you feel is really important... and to feel that you're being published by people who really don't get it and/or don't really care.

You know, one race will not be a survivor if the other one dies, and that's something that we should think about.

It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put - without delay, and with tenderness - back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try.

Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.

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

The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.

My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.

My life is not to be somebody else's impact - you know what I mean?

At one point I learned transcendental meditation. This was 30-something years ago. It took me back to the way that I naturally was as a child growing up way in the country, rarely seeing people. I was in that state of oneness with creation and it was as if I didn't exist except as a part of everything.

Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom.

Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me.

There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through any spiritual or moral or physical devastation.

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

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

Israel is guilty of apartheid and persecution of the Palestinian people, both inside Israel and also in the Occupied Territories.

I'm the most stubborn person I know.

I was distressed that after 9/11, when the United States was attacked by terrorists, the United States' response was to attack Afghanistan, where some of the terrorists had been.

All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.

Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?

We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that's going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.

It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.

I see children, all children, as humanity's most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left.

Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.

The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.

Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.

I'm sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power.

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.

It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's "mature" critics often are.