--- title: "25 Feels Quotes By Alice Walker" description: "25 Feels quotes by Alice Walker. Plus more from Alice Walker and more Feels sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/006/alice-walker-347_calves_i-feel-i-am-a-child-that-s-lost-its-moth_715178.png" --- > [I feel I am a child that's lost its mother. I feel like a calf whose mother has gone off to slaughter.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-walker/i-feel-i-am-a-child-that-s-lost-its-mother-i-feel-like-a-calf-whose/) [Alice Walker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-walker/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/006/alice-walker-347_calves_i-feel-i-am-a-child-that-s-lost-its-moth_715178.png) > [I feel very happy to be living in Berkeley because there are a lot of people who are politically active here.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-walker/i-feel-very-happy-to-be-living-in-berkeley-because-there-are-a-lot-of/) [Alice Walker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-walker/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/810/alice-walker-347_active_i-feel-very-happy-to-be-living-in-berkel_483670.png) > [I can spend two hours grubbing about in my garden, dazed with pleasure and intent, and it feels like five minutes.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-walker/i-can-spend-two-hours-grubbing-about-in-my-garden-dazed-with-pleasure/) [Alice Walker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-walker/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e39/alice-walker-347_dazed_i-can-spend-two-hours-grubbing-about-in_1511808.png) > [I feel like to be where you need to be - where you know you need to be - is such a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-walker/i-feel-like-to-be-where-you-need-to-be-where-you-know-you-need-to-be/) [Alice Walker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-walker/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b20/alice-walker-347_feel_i-feel-like-to-be-where-you-need-to-be-w_757780.png) > [It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe - and I do.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-walker/it-matters-to-me-that-i-feel-loved-by-the-universe-and-i-do/) [Alice Walker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-walker/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/371/alice-walker-347_feel_it-matters-to-me-that-i-feel-loved-by-th_381802.png) > [I'm where I need to be, so my heart is light. Whatever happens, I know - I mean, I feel - that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-walker/i-m-where-i-need-to-be-so-my-heart-is-light-whatever-happens-i-know-i/) [Alice Walker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-walker/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/494/alice-walker-347_expectations_i-m-where-i-need-to-be-so-my-heart-is-li_1102888.png) > [I believe God is everything, say Shug. Everything that is or ever was or ever will be. And when you can feel…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-walker/i-believe-god-is-everything-say-shug-everything-that-is-or-ever-was/) [Alice Walker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-walker/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/feb/alice-walker-347_believe_i-believe-god-is-everything-say-shug-eve_611972.png) > [I don't require myself or anyone to go beyond what they feel they can do. I just do suggest - for their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-walker/i-don-t-require-myself-or-anyone-to-go-beyond-what-they-feel-they-can/) [Alice Walker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-walker/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/61c/alice-walker-347_can-do_i-don-t-require-myself-or-anyone-to-go-b_1179063.png) > [It's an awful feeling to write something that you feel is really important... and to feel that you're being published by people…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-walker/it-s-an-awful-feeling-to-write-something-that-you-feel-is-really/) [Alice Walker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-walker/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4ff/alice-walker-347_awful_it-s-an-awful-feeling-to-write-something_2813602.png) > [There is always a moment in any kind of struggle when one feels in full bloom. Vivid. Alive. One might be blown…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-walker/there-is-always-a-moment-in-any-kind-of-struggle-when-one-feels-in/) [Alice Walker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-walker/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d7a/alice-walker-347_alive_there-is-always-a-moment-in-any-kind-of_1394504.png) > [I think I'm led by spirit. I think I'm led by a sense of what is right and what feels good to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-walker/i-think-i-m-led-by-spirit-i-think-i-m-led-by-a-sense-of-what-is-right/) [Alice Walker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-walker/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/db6/alice-walker-347_accepting_i-think-i-m-led-by-spirit-i-think-i-m-le_1633413.png) > [You really can't be a good artist if you can't say what you really feel. And people may be offended, but, you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-walker/you-really-can-t-be-a-good-artist-if-you-can-t-say-what-you-really/) [Alice Walker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-walker/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/31c/alice-walker-347_art_you-really-can-t-be-a-good-artist-if-you_594384.png) > [I feel that the ancestors are that covering that will cover me. I feel like I can only be enveloped in them…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-walker/i-feel-that-the-ancestors-are-that-covering-that-will-cover-me-i-feel/) [Alice Walker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-walker/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3a0/alice-walker-347_ancestor_i-feel-that-the-ancestors-are-that-cover_1753959.png) > [My big complaint with myself is that I get tired. But, I forgive myself because it's human to get tired. But, I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-walker/my-big-complaint-with-myself-is-that-i-get-tired-but-i-forgive-myself/) [Alice Walker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-walker/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1c6/alice-walker-347_bigs_my-big-complaint-with-myself-is-that-i-g_1989380.jpg) > [My activism really is for myself, because I see places in the world where I feel I should be. If there is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-walker/my-activism-really-is-for-myself-because-i-see-places-in-the-world/) [Alice Walker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-walker/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eac/alice-walker-347_activism_my-activism-really-is-for-myself-because_2979933.jpg) > [ I grew up in the South \[USA states\] under segregation. I know what terrorism feels like - when your father could be… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-walker/i-grew-up-in-the-south-usa-states-under-segregation-i-know-what/) [Alice Walker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-walker/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6d1/alice-walker-347_father_i-grew-up-in-the-south-usa-states-under_2370529.jpg) > [I grew up in the South under segregation. So, I know what terrorism feels like - when your father could be taken…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-walker/i-grew-up-in-the-south-under-segregation-so-i-know-what-terrorism/) [Alice Walker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-walker/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ac2/alice-walker-347_because_i-grew-up-in-the-south-under-segregation_860856.png) > [“Bible say, Honor father and mother no matter what. Then after while every tune I got mad, or start to feels mad.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-walker/bible-say-honor-father-and-mother-no-matter-what-then-after-while/) [Alice Walker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-walker/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/849/alice-walker-347_bible_bible-say-honor-father-and-mother-no-mat_1365351.jpg) > [I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts the universe has given you. And…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-walker/i-feel-that-all-you-can-do-is-give-it-your-absolute-best-with/) [Alice Walker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-walker/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2fd/alice-walker-347_absolutes_i-feel-that-all-you-can-do-is-give-it-yo_1481792.jpg) > [You can just keep going and going and going, and you never get to the end of it because there is no…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-walker/you-can-just-keep-going-and-going-and-going-and-you-never-get-to-the/) [Alice Walker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-walker/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8f4/alice-walker-347_accepting_you-can-just-keep-going-and-going-and-go_1395156.png) > [I find it difficult to feel responsible for the suffering of others. That's why I find war so hard to bear. It's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-walker/i-find-it-difficult-to-feel-responsible-for-the-suffering-of-others/) [Alice Walker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-walker/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/125/alice-walker-347_animal_i-find-it-difficult-to-feel-responsible_2223705.png) > [I think mothers and daughters are meant to give birth to each other, over and over; that is why our challenges to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-walker/i-think-mothers-and-daughters-are-meant-to-give-birth-to-each-other/) [Alice Walker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-walker/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7c8/alice-walker-347_birth_i-think-mothers-and-daughters-are-meant_2890490.jpg) > [I started out as a poet. I've always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-walker/i-started-out-as-a-poet-i-ve-always-been-a-poet-since-i-was-7-or-8/) [Alice Walker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-walker/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a25/alice-walker-347_always_i-started-out-as-a-poet-i-ve-always-been_2356742.png) > [We are all substantially flawed, wounded, angry, hurt, here on Earth. But this human condition, so painful to us, and in someways…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-walker/we-are-all-substantially-flawed-wounded-angry-hurt-here-on-earth-but/) [Alice Walker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-walker/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c6a/alice-walker-347_angry_we-are-all-substantially-flawed-wounded_981667.png) > [I feel a little peculiar around the children. For one thing, they grown. And I see they think me and Nettie and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-walker/i-feel-a-little-peculiar-around-the-children-for-one-thing-they-grown/) [Alice Walker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-walker/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a84/alice-walker-347_children_i-feel-a-little-peculiar-around-the-chil_2373557.jpg) ## Other authors on Feels ## More by Alice Walker > [I gave my archive to Emory University because there's a really dear friend who teaches there, Rudolph Byrd, and he's the editor.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-walker/i-gave-my-archive-to-emory-university-because-there-s-a-really-dear/) [Alice Walker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-walker/) > [Just be what it is that you are, and that is just fine. You don't have to be what you're not in any way.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-walker/just-be-what-it-is-that-you-are-and-that-is-just-fine-you-don-t-have/) [Alice Walker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-walker/) > [“Remember this-- say it & know it is true: Alice loves me Alice loves me and I am not blamed for this. ... she…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-walker/remember-this-say-it-know-it-is-true-alice-loves-me-alice-loves-me/) [Alice Walker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-walker/) > [“Only the sky above us do we hold in common.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-walker/only-the-sky-above-us-do-we-hold-in-common/) [Alice Walker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-walker/) > [“Why aren't you happy in America, if everyone there drives motorcars?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-walker/why-aren-t-you-happy-in-america-if-everyone-there-drives-motorcars/) [Alice Walker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-walker/) > [“She saw poetry where other writers merely saw failure to cope with English.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-walker/she-saw-poetry-where-other-writers-merely-saw-failure-to-cope-with/) [Alice Walker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-walker/) > [My mother had handed down respect for the possibilities...and the will to grasp them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-walker/my-mother-had-handed-down-respect-for-the-possibilities-and-the-will/) [Alice Walker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-walker/) > [Helped are those who are content to be themselves; they will never lack mystery in their lives and the joys of self-discovery will be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-walker/helped-are-those-who-are-content-to-be-themselves-they-will-never/) [Alice Walker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-walker/) > [“As others might prepare for an exam whose subject matter is unknown to them, so I must study, cram, for every conversation with my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-walker/as-others-might-prepare-for-an-exam-whose-subject-matter-is-unknown/) [Alice Walker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-walker/) > [The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-walker/the-original-crime-of-niggers-and-lesbians-is-that-they-prefer/) [Alice Walker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-walker/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-walker/my-mother-was-very-strong-once-she-picked-up-a-coconut-and-smashed-it/) [Alice Walker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-walker/) > [Many readers fail to realize this, but 'The Color Purple' is a theological text. It is about the reclamation of one's original God: the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-walker/many-readers-fail-to-realize-this-but-the-color-purple-is-a/) [Alice Walker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-walker/) > [The good news may be that Nature is phasing out the white man, but the bad news is that's who She thinks we all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-walker/the-good-news-may-be-that-nature-is-phasing-out-the-white-man-but-the/) [Alice Walker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-walker/) > [Humans - whatever billions we are - we don't have the control. We are considered expendable, basically.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-walker/humans-whatever-billions-we-are-we-don-t-have-the-control-we-are/) [Alice Walker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-walker/) > [All my life I had to fight. I had to fight my daddy. I had to fight my uncles. I had to fight my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-walker/all-my-life-i-had-to-fight-i-had-to-fight-my-daddy-i-had-to-fight-my/) [Alice Walker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-walker/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/feels/alice-walker/#itemlist", "name": "25 Feels Quotes By Alice Walker", "numberOfItems": 25, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I feel I am a child that's lost its mother. 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That's terrorism, too.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Alice Walker" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-walker/i-grew-up-in-the-south-usa-states-under-segregation-i-know-what/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6d1/alice-walker-347_father_i-grew-up-in-the-south-usa-states-under_2370529.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6d1/alice-walker-347_father_i-grew-up-in-the-south-usa-states-under_2370529.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6d1/alice-walker-347_father_i-grew-up-in-the-south-usa-states-under_2370529.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I grew up in the South [USA states] under segregation. 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But he my husband I shrug my shoulders.This life soon be over.I say.Heaven last all ways”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Alice Walker" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-walker/bible-say-honor-father-and-mother-no-matter-what-then-after-while/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/849/alice-walker-347_bible_bible-say-honor-father-and-mother-no-mat_1365351.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/849/alice-walker-347_bible_bible-say-honor-father-and-mother-no-mat_1365351.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/849/alice-walker-347_bible_bible-say-honor-father-and-mother-no-mat_1365351.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Bible say, Honor father and mother no matter what. 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And that's fine.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Alice Walker" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-walker/i-feel-that-all-you-can-do-is-give-it-your-absolute-best-with/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2fd/alice-walker-347_absolutes_i-feel-that-all-you-can-do-is-give-it-yo_1481792.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2fd/alice-walker-347_absolutes_i-feel-that-all-you-can-do-is-give-it-yo_1481792.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2fd/alice-walker-347_absolutes_i-feel-that-all-you-can-do-is-give-it-yo_1481792.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts the universe has given you. 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The…” — Alice Walker", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 21, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I find it difficult to feel responsible for the suffering of others. That's why I find war so hard to bear. It's the same with animals: I feel the less harm I do, the lighter my heart. I love a light heart. And when I know I'm causing suffering, I feel the heaviness of it. It's a physical pain. 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