Alice Walker Quotes

There could be no happy community in which there was one unhappy child.

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.

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

I'm for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.

Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.

I live a very secluded life, a very contemplative life and a very meditative one. That is my ideal life.

Once us feel loved by God, us do the best us can to please him with what us like.

It is healthier in any case to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's "mature" critics often are.

Aside from the fact that they say it's unhealthy, my fat ain't never been no trouble. Mens always have loved me. My kids ain't never complained. Plus they's fat.

Because I know. Grown-up white men don’t want to pretend to be anything else. Not even for a minute.

Can you handle it? ast Shug. How I’m gon keep from killing him, I say.

Eu unu cred că suntem aici ca să ne mirăm. Să ne mirăm. Să întrebăm. Iar dacă te miri de lucrurile mari şi întrebi de lucrurile mari, atuncea ’nveţi despre alea mărunte, aproape din întâmplare. Da des...

Everything want to be loved. Us sing and dance and holler, just trying to be loved.

Expect nothing. Live frugallyOn surprise.become a strangerTo need of pityOr, if compassion be freelyGiven outTake only enoughStop short of urge to pleadThen purge away the need.Wish for nothing larger...

I remember one time you said your life made you feel so ashamed you couldn't even talk about it to God, you had to write it, bad as you thought your writing was. Well, now I know what you meant. And w...

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figureout how to see people differently

If you lie to yourself about your own pain, you will be killed by those who will claim you enjoyed it.

In truth, it made me pity him, and see him as a fool.

It's worse than unwelcome, said Samuel. The Africans don't even see us. They don't even recognize us as the brothers and sisters they sold.

Life is very different when you have a good friend. I've seen people without special friends, close friends. Other men, especially. For some reason men don't often make and keep friends. This is a rea...