Alice Walker quotes

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.
- Alice Walker

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

Without money of one’s own in a capitalist society, there is no such thing as independence.
- Alice Walker

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
- Alice Walker

She was so quiet. So reflective. And she could erase herself, her spirit, with a swiftness that truly startled, when she knew the people around her could not respect it.
- Alice Walker

Criticism is painful when it's not done with love.
- Alice Walker

War will stop when we no longer praise it, or give it any attention at all. Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited.
- Alice Walker

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

Laughter isn't even the other side of tears. It is tears turned inside out. Truly the suffering is great, here on earth. We blunder along, shredded by our mistakes, bludgeoned by our faults. Not having a clue where the dark path leads us. But on the whole, we stumble along bravely, don't you think?
- Alice Walker

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.
- Alice Walker

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. People think pleasing God is all God cares about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.
- Alice Walker

Israel is guilty of apartheid and persecution of the Palestinian people, both inside Israel and also in the Occupied Territories.
- Alice Walker

I try to teach my heart not to want things it can’t have.
- Alice Walker

When I was 18, I went to the Soviet Union. I kept hearing that America was planning to bomb them - lots of bombs were going to come down on these people. I went there not knowing anything, except that I thought the whole thing was stupid and that I wanted to see who these people were that we were going to bomb.
- Alice Walker

We are the ones we have been waiting for.
- Alice Walker

You bring children into the world. You love them with heart and soul.
- Alice Walker

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 wisdom.
- Alice Walker

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

Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.
- Alice Walker

Resistance is the secret of joy!
- Alice Walker

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