All Alice Walker Quotes
- If you're silent for a long time, people just arrive in your mind. Arrive
- I'm pore, I'm black, I may be ugly and can't cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I'm here. Black
- But I don't know how to fight. All I know how to do is stay alive. Alive
- If she come, I be happy. If she don't, I be content. Content
- The more I wonder, the more I love. Inspirational
- Be compassionate to everyone. Don't just search for whatever it is that annoys and frightens you-see beyond those things to the basic human being. Especially… Allow
- Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet. Activism
- How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns. Everywhere
- War will stop when we no longer praise it, or give it any attention at all. Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited. All
- My parents were both storytellers. They always spoke with metaphorical richness. Always Spoke
- In the summer of 1966, I went to Mississippi to be in the heart of the civil-rights movement, helping people who had been thrown off… Became
- I have a collective sense of suffering. Collective
- I believe you mother everybody, not in a cloying, hovering way, but taking care of what is around you. Believe
- I cry so much less than I used to. I used to be one of the most teary people. Cry
- I was brought up to try to see what was wrong and right it. Since I am a writer, writing is how I right it. Brought
- People really had a problem with my disinterest in submission. They had a problem with my intellect, and they had a problem with my choice… Choice
- I wanted in my lifetime to vote for a radical Native American woman, since my vision of any future that we might have is that… American
- From infancy, I have relied on the fiercely sweet spirits of black men; and this is abundantly clear in my work. Abundant
- People have so many hang-ups about how other people live their lives. People always want to keep you in a little box, or they need… Always Want
- Can people who hunger so desperately for what other people have ever have enough? Desperately
- David Icke reminded me of Malcolm X. David
- Women have to be extremely careful about choosing something that they consider an act of defiance that can really be used to further their enslavement. Act
- My parents taught me service - not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family. Culture
- How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house their country bombed in Iraq is the… Bombed
- Fear is real, but so is love. Fear