Alice Walker Quotes

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

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

Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.

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

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

Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.

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.

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

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.

I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.

Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.

The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn't want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your a-s.

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

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

Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.

I'm sure we, the American people, are the b--t of jokes by those in power.