Alice Walker Quotes (73 Quotes)

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

I try to teach my heart not to want things it can't have.

Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me.

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

She say, Celie, tell the truth, have you ever found God in church I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show. Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. And I think all the other folks did too. They come to church to share God, not find God.

Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful.

People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don't.

All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.

Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.

The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.

The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.

Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?

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

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.

Activism is my rent for living on this planet.

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

Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.

The sight of a Black nun strikes their sentimentality and, as I am unalterably rooted in native ground, they consider me a work of primitive art, housed in a magical color the incarnation of civilized, anti-heathenism, and the fruit of a triumphing idea.

What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.

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

It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.

Horses make a landscape look beautiful.