Alice Walker Quotes (21 quotations)
1. Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week. - Alice Walker
2. Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for. - Alice Walker
3. Every small, positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future. - Alice Walker
4. Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise. - Alice Walker
5. Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful. - Alice Walker
6. How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers' names. - Alice Walker
7. I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart. - Alice Walker
8. I imagine good teaching as a circle of earnest people sitting down to ask each other meaningful questions. I don't see it as the handing down of answers. So much of what passes for teaching is merely a pointing out of what items to want. - Alice Walker
9. I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. - Alice Walker
10. I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to. - Alice Walker
11. In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful. - Alice Walker
12. In search of my mother's garden, I found my own. - Alice Walker
13. Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it. - Alice Walker
14. No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow. - Alice Walker
15. Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be. - Alice Walker
16. People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools. - Alice Walker
17. Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors. - Alice Walker
18. The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen. - Alice Walker
19. 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. - Alice Walker
20. Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk? - Alice Walker
21. Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me. - Alice Walker
2. Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for. - Alice Walker
3. Every small, positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future. - Alice Walker
4. Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise. - Alice Walker
5. Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful. - Alice Walker
6. How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers' names. - Alice Walker
7. I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart. - Alice Walker
8. I imagine good teaching as a circle of earnest people sitting down to ask each other meaningful questions. I don't see it as the handing down of answers. So much of what passes for teaching is merely a pointing out of what items to want. - Alice Walker
9. I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. - Alice Walker
10. I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to. - Alice Walker
11. In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful. - Alice Walker
12. In search of my mother's garden, I found my own. - Alice Walker
13. Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it. - Alice Walker
14. No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow. - Alice Walker
15. Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be. - Alice Walker
16. People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools. - Alice Walker
17. Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors. - Alice Walker
18. The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen. - Alice Walker
19. 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. - Alice Walker
20. Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk? - Alice Walker
21. Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me. - Alice Walker
