Alice Walker Quotes

Do you know what O'Keefe Says about blue? he asked her, blowing out a cloud of smoke, warming to her voice, though he did not remember her face clearly from the opening night's exhibition.What?That it...

Helped are those who are content to be themselves; they will never lack mystery in their lives and the joys of self-discovery will be constant.

I am an expression of the divine, just like a peach is, just like a fish is. I have a right to be this way...I can't apologize for that, nor can I change it, nor do I want to... We will never have to...

I feel a little peculiar around the children. For one thing, they grown. And I see they think me and Nettie and Shug and Albert and Samuel and Harpo and Sofia and Jack and Odessa real old and don't kn...

I love children say Sofia. But all the colored women that say they love yours is lying. They don't love Reynolds Stanley any more than I do. But if you so badly raise as to ast 'em, what you expect th...

I love his dear eyes in which the vulnerability and beauty of his soul can be plainly read.

I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ast. And that in wondering bout the big things and asting bout the big things, you learn about the little ones, almost by accident. But you never know...

I wish I could be traveling with her, but thank God she able to do it. Sometimes I feel mad at her. Feel like I could scratch her hair right off her head. But then I think, Shug got a right to live to...

I would have thought that a book that begins Dear God would immediately have been identified as a book about the desire to encounter, to hear from, the Ultimate Ancestor. Perhaps it is a sign of our t...

I'm mad about the waste that happens when people who love each other can't even bring themselves to talk.

If you was my wife, she say, I'd cover you up with kisses stead of licks, and work hard for you too.

Let him hear me. If [god] ever listened to poor colored women, the world would be a different place.

Oh, she say. God loves all them feelings. That's some of the best stuff God did. And when you know God loves 'em you enjoys 'em a lot more. You can just relax, go with everything that's going, and pra...

PaganAt homein the countrysideI make the decisionto leave your book--overdue at the library--face up, 'promiscuous'out in the sun.Pagan.I laugh to seethis was our religionall along.Hiddeneven from our...

People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.

She can have them, Mama, she said, like somebody used to never winning anything, or having anything reserved for her.

She say to Sofia, All your children so clean, she say, would you like to work for me, be my maid? Sofia say, Hell no. She say, What you say? Sofia say, Hell no.

She sicker than my mama was when she die. But she more evil than my mama and that keep her alive.

She thinks her sister has held life always in the palm of one hand, that no is a word the world never learned to say to her.

She used to read to us without pity; forcing words, lies, other folks' habits, whole lives upon us two, sitting trapped and ignorant underneath her voice. She washed us in a river of make-believe, bur...