Alice Walker Quotes

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...

My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father's head. It taught me about women defending themselves and not collapsing in a heap.

Bůh je v tobě a vůbec ve všech lidech. S Bohem v sobě už na svět přicházíme. Ale najde ho jen ten kdo ho hledá v sobě. Někdy se Bůh projeví i dyž ho nehledáš nebo dyž nevíš co vlastně hledáš. Samej ža...

Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.

I made my first white women friends in college; they loved me and were loyal to our friendship, but I understood, as they did, that they were white women and that whiteness mattered.

For me, I used to be shy towards journalism because it wasn't poetry. And then I realized that the events that I covered in essays that became journalism were actually great because they inspired me,...

The world was almost at the point of forgetting what a fine time people can have helping one another. That people like to work together and to kick back after work and share their experiences. What wo...

You are all talking a bit too much, said Armando, who had cautioned them from the beginning to stay out of popular culture and in their own interior worlds.When you are caught up in the world that you...

Becauseyou rubbed my shoulderlast nighta poem

But I don't know how to fight. All I know how to do is stay alive.

World wars have been fought and lost; for every war is against the world and every war against the world is lost.

Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams.

I understood at a very early age that in nature, I felt everything I should feel in church but never did. Walking in the woods, I felt in touch with the universe and with the spirit of the universe.

Some colored people so scared of whitefolks they claim to love the cotton gin.

There is for human beings no greater hell to fear than the one on earth.

Here's the thing, say Shug. The thing I believe. God is inside you and inside everybody else. You come into the world with God. But only them that search for it inside find it. And sometimes it just m...

{T}here is a point at which even grief feels absurd. And at this point, laughter gushes up to retrieve sanity.

Be nobody's darling; Be an outcast. Take the contradictions Of your life And wrap around You like a shawl, To parry stones To keep you warm. Watch the people succumb To madness With ample cheer; Let t...

We all have to start somewhere if us want to do better, an d out of self is what us have to hand