Quotes

“Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.” Alice Walker

“Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.” Alice Walker

“Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.” Alice Walker

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

“Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it's a good place that we're all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it.” Alice Walker

“I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America's really large shadow and that's not all that bad.” Alice Walker

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

“The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.” Alice Walker

“It is important to remember yourself.” Alice Walker

“My parents taught me service - not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.” Alice Walker

“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.” Alice Walker

“Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer will we be an inarticulate and ignorant humanity, confused by our enslavement to superior cruelty and weaponry.” Alice Walker

“I can easily imagine Obama sitting down and talking to any leader - or any person - in the world, with no baggage of past servitude or race supremacy to mar their talks.” Alice Walker

“I continue to care for President Obama and for his family. I think that in many ways they are very courageous people, and I honor that, because I know what it means to live as a black person in a racist America.” Alice Walker

“In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you've become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that's the height of intelligence.” Alice Walker

“In the summer of 1966, I went to Mississippi to be in the heart of the civil-rights movement, helping people who had been thrown off the farms or taken off the welfare roles for registering to vote. While working there, I met the civil-rights lawyer I later married - we became an interracial couple.” Alice Walker

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

“I just like to have words that describe things correctly. Now to me, 'black feminist' does not do that. I need a word that is organic, that really comes out of the culture, that really expresses the spirit that we see in black women. And it's just... womanish.” Alice Walker

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

“Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.” Alice Walker

“Thank you is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.” Alice Walker

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

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

“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.” Alice Walker

“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