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Alice Walker
Quotes by Alice Walker
Quotes by Alice Walker
“I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.”
Alice Walker
“In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.”
Alice Walker
“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
Alice Walker
“I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire and enjoy it; that's my religion.”
Alice Walker
“Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.”
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“I'm entirely interested in people, and also other creatures and beings, but especially in people, and I tend to read them by emotional field more than anything. So I have a special interest in what they're thinking and who they are and who's hiding behind those eyes and how did he get there, and what's the story, really?”
Alice Walker
“Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.”
Alice Walker
“I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.”
Alice Walker
“In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.”
Alice Walker
“Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.”
Alice Walker
“People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.”
Alice Walker
“War contributes greatly to global warming, which shouldn't surprise us. All those bombs going off, all those rockets, all those planes and helicopters. All that fuel of various kinds being used. It pollutes the air and water of this very fragile and interconnected planet.”
Alice Walker
“Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.”
Alice Walker
“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.”
Alice Walker
“Horses make a landscape look beautiful.”
Alice Walker
“For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.”
Alice Walker
“How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.”
Alice Walker
“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.”
Alice Walker
“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.”
Alice Walker
“The most important question in the world is, Why is the child crying?”
Alice Walker
