“ How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names. Alice Walker
“ It all I can do not to cry. I make myself wood I say to myself, Celie, you a tree. That's how I come to know trees fear man. Alice Walker
“ We do not admire their president.We know why the White House is white.We do not find their children irresistible;We do not agree they should inherit the earth. Alice Walker
“ He beat me when you not here, I say.Who do, she say, Albert?Mr ____, I say.I can't believe it, she say. She sit down on the bench next to me real hard, like she drop.What he beat you for? she ast.For… Alice Walker
“ All her young life she has tried to please her father, never quite realizing that, as a girl, she never could. Alice Walker
“ The absence of models, in literature as in life, to say nothing of painting, is an occupational hazard for the artist, simply because models in art, in behavior, in growth of spirit and intellect--eve… Alice Walker
“ What she showed me was, Yes, I am Grandmother as she is; there is no separation, really, between us. And that, on this planet, Grandmother Earth, there is no higher authority. That our inseparability… Alice Walker
“ I think 'The Color Purple' is so bursting with love, the need for connection, the showing of the need for connection around the globe. Alice Walker
“ Sofia the kind of woman no matter what she have in her hand she make it look like a weapon. Alice Walker
“ Shug Avery sat up in bed a little today. I wash and comb out her hair. She got the nottiest, shortest, kinkiest hair I ever saw, and I loves every strand of it. Alice Walker
“ The three wealthiest people in the world own more than the GDP of forty-eight countries! Alice Walker
“ Hard times' is a phrase the English love to use, when speaking of Africa. And it is easy to forget that Africa's 'hard times' were made harder by them. Alice Walker
“ First time I got the full sight of Shug Avery long black body with it black plum nipples, look like her mouth, I thought I had turned into a man Alice Walker
“ Even as I hold youI think of you as someone gonefar, far away. Your eyes the colorof pennies in a bowl of dark honeybringing sweet light to someone elseyour black hair slipping through my fingersis th… 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
