Quotes

“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

“Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.” Booker Washington

“Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.” Booker Washington

“I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.” Booker Washington

“Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.” Booker Washington

“Character is power.” Booker Washington

“Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.” Booker Washington

“Good, Alone, Yourself Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.” Booker Washington

“At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.” Booker Washington

“If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.” Booker Washington

“One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.” Booker Washington

“Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.” Booker Washington

“Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.” Booker Washington

“There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.” Booker Washington

“Character, not circumstances, makes the man.” Booker Washington

“I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.” Booker Washington

“No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.” Booker Washington