Quotes from Alice Walker

Anyhow, I say, the God I been praying and writing to is a man. And act like all the other mens I know. Trifling, forgitful, and lowdown.

We have had many lifetimes as human beings to learn of the many, many ways we do not wish to be. But we are human, she said. And therefore we already are, every way there is

She did not see why anyone should worry about her soul, even the people she marched with. "When it gives me trouble," she'd sneer, "I'll call y'all.

Life don't stop just cause you leave home, Miss Celie. You know that." Excerpt From The color purple Alice Walker This material may be protected by copyright.

Some realities drive us to our knees and since I was there already before my altar I unwrapped and lit the beeswax candles I acquired for you.

Although Africans once had a much better civilization than the European (though of course even the English do not say this: I get this from reading a man named J. A. Rogers) for several centuries they have fallen on hard times. Hard times is a phrase the English love to use, when speaking of Africa. And it is easy to forget that Africa's hard times were made harder by them.

De todos modos, ese Dios al que yo rezaba y al que escribía cartas es un hombre. Y como todos los hombres, es desconsiderado, olvidadizo e indiferente.

What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears. I am speaking here of man's mind. The men both worshiped and feared the women.

Whenever I met someone who seemed to know a lot about a subject, and who evinced, moreover, a certain happiness in his or her being, and if I were interested in the subject, I asked to be taught what they knew.

A]ll History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world. 'Progress' affects few. Only revolution can affect many.

I believe God is everything, say Shug. Everything that is or ever was or ever will be. And when you feel that, and be happy to feel that, you've found It.

Now we are beginning to ask the crucial question. If it is natural to be black and red or brown or yellow and if it is beautiful to resist oppression and if it is gorgeous to be of color and walking around free, then where does the problem lie? Who are these people that kill our children in the night?

opening beyond where I was afraid to go would be the medicine for my cure.

Wherever there's a man, there's trouble.

there because of her brilliance but only tolerated because it was clear she was one, too, on whom true Ladyhood would never be conferred.

Repelled by cruelty let us ban it from our hearts.

They say he "hit a square" while flying his small aircraft; a situation in which it is impossible to tell up from down or earth from sky and that he lost his way.

Y es que hace mucho tiempo que no pienso en los muchachos. Y en los hombres no he pensado nunca.

The experience I had last night is the only kind she's interested in. [...] being with the people of the world in a certain way, he elaborated, noting her look. A way that erases all boundaries and bullshit.

Artists, he now understood, were simply messengers. On them fell the responsibility for uniting the world. An awesome task, but he felt up to it, in his own life. His faith must be that the pain he brought to others and to himself—so poorly concealed in the information delivered—would lead not to destruction, but to transformation

Carlotta had not dreamed her numbed heart could be broken still more, or that breaking the heart opens it.

Why are women so easily tramps and traitors when men are heroes for engaging in the same activity? Why do women stand for this?

Keep track of family members; talk with them, work and plan for the future with them, vacation with them, take them with you when you have something joyful to share.

She'd thought him very old. He was young though, only in his forties. How was it possible he felt confident, in helping others, to attempt so much? Was it because the world was in such bad shape, the young must activate the ancient within themselves and the older must activate youth? On a spiritual level was there any difference?