Alice Walker Quotes

Alice Walker is an American author, poet, and activist. She is best known for her novel "The Color Purple," which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and was adapted into an acclaimed film and Broadway musical. Walker's works often explore themes of race, gender, and social justice.

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.

It's not possible to stop love.... -Alice Walker

It's not possible to stop love.

A people do not throw their geniuses away. And if they are thrown away, it is our duty as artists and as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children and, if necessary, bone by bone.

The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.

Part of our tradition as black women is that we are universalists. Black children, yellow children, red children, brown children, that is the black woman's normal, day-to-day relationship. In my family alone, we are about four different colors.

I'm for women choosing whatever they want to do bu... -Alice Walker

I'm for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.

I live on the West Coast of the United States, and yet the air that I breathe is sometimes the same air that was being breathed in China the day before.

I started out as a poet. I've always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be fundamentally a poet who got into writing novels.

I live a very secluded life, a very contemplative life and a very meditative one. That is my ideal life.

There are thousands of Palestinians in prison virt... -Alice Walker

There are thousands of Palestinians in prison virtually for no reason.

Well, capitalism is a big problem, because with capitalism you're just going to keep buying and selling things until there's nothing else to buy and sell, which means gobbling up the planet.

When I joined the freedom movement in Mississippi in my early 20s, it was to come to the aid of sharecroppers, like my parents, who had been thrown off the land they'd always known - the plantations - because they attempted to exercise their 'democratic' right to vote.

I'm very disappointed in Obama. I was very much in support of him in the beginning, but I cannot support war. I cannot support droning. I cannot support capitulating to the banks.

I'm not lesbian; I'm not bisexual; I'm not straigh... -Alice Walker

I'm not lesbian; I'm not bisexual; I'm not straight. I'm just curious.

It is important to remember yourself.... -Alice Walker

It is important to remember yourself.

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 government.

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color... -Alice Walker

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.

My parents were both storytellers. They always spo... -Alice Walker

My parents were both storytellers. They always spoke with metaphorical richness.

What's really hard is that you could care a lot fo... -Alice Walker

What's really hard is that you could care a lot for someone and not want to live with him anymore.

Even with all of the things that are so awful, if you walk into your yard and stay there looking at almost anything for five minutes, you will be stunned by how marvelous life is and how incredibly lucky we are to have it.

We have to wake up. We have to refuse to be a clon... -Alice Walker

We have to wake up. We have to refuse to be a clone.

Creation is a sustained period of bliss, even though the subject can still be very sad. Because there's the triumph of coming through and understanding that you have, and that you did it the way only you could do it. You didn't do it the way somebody told you to do it.

One child must never be set above another, even in casual conversation, not to mention in speeches that circle the globe.

I think all documentaries leave out areas of people's lives. Which is good. There are areas that need not be explored.

From infancy, I have relied on the fiercely sweet spirits of black men; and this is abundantly clear in my work.

I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself - then they get to say 'See, you did it yourself.'

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 it will be led by women and older women.

I met Howard Zinn in 1961, my first year at Spelman College in Atlanta. He was the tall, rangy, good-looking professor that many of the girls at Spelman swooned over.

You bring children into the world. You love them w... -Alice Walker

You bring children into the world. You love them with heart and soul.

My parents taught me service - not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.

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