“The truest help we can render an afflicted man is to lead him to discover the wealth within himself.”
“The pain we feel is our most reliable guide to self-knowledge.”
“Activism is my rent for living on the planet.”
“The animals of the planet are in desperate peril. Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen.”
“I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.”
“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.”
“The most important question in the world is, ‘Why is the child crying?'”
“Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.”
“I believe God is everything, say Shug. Everything that is or ever was or ever will be.”
“In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.”
“The more I wonder, the more I love.”
“Time moves slowly, but passes quickly.”
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“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.”
“What the mind doesn’t understand, it worships or fears.”
Alice Walker Quotes :
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.”
“How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers’ names.”
“Is solace anywhere more comforting than in the arms of a sister?”
“The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.”
“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
“The whole world is held together by the unwashed hand.”
“The nature of this flower is to bloom.”
“War will stop when we no longer praise it, or give it any attention at all.”
“The most foreign country is within.”
“In nature, nothing is perfect, and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.”
“I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit.”
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“It’s so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that’s what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower is to bloom.”
“I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.”
“Activism is the rent I pay for living on the planet.”
“It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.”
“All history is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.”
“The way forward is with a broken heart.”
“The trouble with our people is as soon as they get free they want to enslave themselves again.”
“What I know for sure is that all the sacrifice and challenges we face are worth it if we can be happy and healthy at the end of the day.”
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.”
“Human compassion is equal to human cruelty, and it is up to each of us to tip the balance.”
“The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.”
“Resistance is the secret of joy!”
“Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.”
“Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.”
“Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.”
“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.”
“Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.”
“We are a people. A people do not throw their geniuses away.”
“No person is your friend who demands your silence.”
“The most foreign country in the world to a man is that in which he was born.”
“Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.”
“Activism is the rent I pay for living on this planet.”
“Art is the mirror, perhaps, that a desperate humanity holds to itself in an attempt to live on.”
“Be nobody’s darling; Be an outcast.”
“Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.”
“Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.”
“Look closely at the present you are constructing. It should look like the future you are dreaming.”
“Whenever you are engaged in work that serves humanity and is for the building of humanity, it has dignity and it has worth.”
“I am an expression of the divine, just like a peach is, just like a fish is.”
“I try to teach my heart not to want things it can’t have.”
“Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.”
“Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.”
“It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put—without delay, and with tenderness—back where they belong.”
“Love is not concerned with whom you pray or where you slept the night you ran away from home. Love is concerned that the beating of your heart should kill no one.”
“Healing begins where the wound was made.”
“Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.”
“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.”
“Don’t let anybody walk through your mind with dirty feet.”
“Part of what existence means to me is knowing the difference between what I am now and what I was then.”
“We are the ones we have been waiting for.”
“Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.”