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Portrait of Alice Walker

Alice Walker

(1944–1982) Short Story Writer United Kingdom

654 quotes in 2207 categories

Alice Walker encourages being true to yourself and says that love can be spoken aloud without blame. She notes that the sky above us is a shared thing, and that contentment brings mystery and constant self‑discovery. She also mentions a friend who helps preserve her archive, showing the value of respect and possibility passed down.

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Alice Walker was a short story writer from the United Kingdom, best known for The Color Purple.

Quick Facts About Alice Walker

Born: February 9, 1944
Died: October 14, 1982
Nationality: United Kingdom
Profession: Short Story Writer
Notable works: The Color Purple

About Alice Walker

Alice Malsenior Tallulah‑Kate Walker is an American novelist, short‑story writer, poet and social activist. In 1982 she was the first African‑American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel The Color Purple. Over her career she has published seventeen novels and short‑story collections, twelve non‑fiction works and various essays and poetry collections.

Quotes by Alice Walker

Like I said...fine with me.

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“I feel peace with the world.”

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It is important to remember yourself.

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“the God of woman is autonomy”

Autonomy

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What you hope for, you also fear.

Fear

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Resistance is the secret of joy!

Conformity

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Fear is real, but so is love.

Fear

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The more I wonder, the more I love.

Love

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allowing freedom to others brings freedom to ourselves.

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We should not look down on our first ancestors.

Ancestors

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Drew Dellinger is a deep and courageous poet. How lucky we are!

Courageous

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Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.

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“Long as I can spell G-o-d I got somebody along.”

Companion

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“Why aren't you happy in America, if everyone there drives motorcars?”

America

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Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.

Home

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Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.

Attention

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Writing poems is my way of celebrating with the world that I have not committed suicide the evening before.

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The fact is that when you do something from your heart, you leave a heart print.

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My mother had handed down respect for the possibilities...and the will to grasp them.

Daughter

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Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.

Change

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“Keep in mind always the present you are constructing. It should be the future you want.”

Anger

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“We'll, you know how nigger is. Can't nobody tell 'em nothing even today. Can't be rule. Every nigger you see got a…

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HELPED are those whose every act is a prayer for peace; on them depends the future of the world.

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It is crucial that young people are taught sustainable child production and rearing.

Child

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Helped are those too busy living to respond when they are wrongfully attacked: on their walks they shall find mysteries so intriguing…

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My mother had bought a sewing machine for me. When I went away to college, she gave me a sewing machine, a…

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To grow, to become spiritually alive, and vibrant, you really have to struggle. Without struggle, you do not move at all...I would…

Alive

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Anything that forces you to act at the possible harm of your own existence is going to exact a cost. You have…

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For me, I used to be shy towards journalism because it wasn't poetry. And then I realized that the events that I…

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I think if I could not get myself off my cushion, off my couch, or away from whatever I'm eating - or…

Couches

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“Sofia take up the clothes, straighten them out, stand by the ironing board with her hand on the iron. Sofia the kind…

Fashion

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“She was never thought of as a pretty girl. People might say she looked interesting, mysterious, older than her years and therefore…

Heart

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The Olinka girls do not believe girls should be educated. When I asked a mother why she thought this, she said: A…

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We are all substantially flawed, wounded, angry, hurt, here on Earth. But this human condition, so painful to us, and in someways…

Angry

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Storytelling, you know, has a real function. The process of the storytelling is itself a healing process, partly because you have someone…

Advice

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I personally have never trusted museums. ... It is because museums, broadly speaking, live off of the art and artifacts of others,…

Art

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“What will people say, you running off to Memphis like you don't have a house to look after? Shug say, Albert. Try…

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I love my own culture. I love my African-American culture very deeply, and I know it deserves to be honored. You have…

African american

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“And then, just when I know I can live content without Shug, just when Mr. ___ done ast me to marry him…

Coming home

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I feel a little peculiar around the children. For one thing, they grown. And I see they think me and Nettie and…

Children

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Alice Walker by topic

People (104) Love (59) Life (55) Thinking (54) World (49) Children (44) Time (39) Nature (38) Writing (33) Parenting (33) Earth (27) Men (25) Heart (25) Mother (24)