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World Quotes by Alice Walker
- The Animals of the planet are in desperate peril and they are fully aware of this. No less than human beings are doing in all…
- A writer's heart, a poet's heart, an artist's heart, a musician's heart is always breaking. It is through that broken window that we see the…
- How we come into this world, how we are ushered in, met, and hopefully embraced upon arrival, impacts the whole of our time on earth.
- Books became my world because the world I was in was very hard.
- I'm not [a Buddhist]. The whole point of anything that is really, truly valuable to your soul, and your own growth, is not to attach…
- During my years of being close to people engaged in changing the world I have seen fear turn into courage. Sorrow into joy. Funerals into…
- As for those who think the Arab world promises freedom, the briefest study of its routine traditional treatment of blacks (slavery) and women (purdah) will…
- HELPED are those whose every act is a prayer for peace; on them depends the future of the world.
- 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,…
- Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in…
- All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.
- Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.
- The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'
- I love the natural world - it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.
- I think that wealthy white people would like to have a country that resembles the Fifties, when all the minorities were tucked away in ghettos…
- It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put - without delay, and with tenderness - back on the…
- The world is changing. It is no longer a world just for boys and men
- 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…
- 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…
- Listen, God love everything you love - and a mess of stuff you don't. But more than anything else, God love admiration. You saying God…
- the world has changed: it did not change without your prayers without your faith without your determination to believe in liberation and kindness; without your…
- You bring children into the world. You love them with heart and soul.
- If we want to fight people in the world, we should fight them with pillows - pillows stuffed with food, medicine, music... That would be…
- Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer…
- June Jordan, who died of cancer in 2002, was a brilliant, fierce, radical, and frequently furious poet. We were friends for thirty years. Not once…
More World Quotes
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach