Quotes from Alice Walker

When a movement awakens people to the possibilities of life, it seems unfair to frustrate them by then denying what they had thought was offered. But what was offered? What was promised? What was it all about? What good did it do? Would it have been better, as some have suggested, to leave the Negro people as they were, unawakened, unallied with one another, unhopeful about what to expect for their children in some future world?

Here's to all the children who grow up without their fathers. The world is full of us ... and some of us have managed anyhow!

But this hard work, let me tell you. He been there so long, he don't want to budge. He threaten lightening, floods and earthquakes. Us fight. I hardly pray at all. Every time I conjure up a rock, I throw it.

They calls me yellow like yellow be my name They calls me yellow like yellow be my name But if yellow is a name Why ain't black the same Well, if I say Hey black girl Lord, she try to ruin my game

that human compassion is equal to human cruelty and that it is up to each of us to tip the balance. I

Gli animali della terra esistono per se stessi. Non sono stati fatti per gli umani, così come i negri non sono stati fatti per i bianchi, né le donne per gli uomini

But she keep on. You got to fight. You got to fight. But I don't know how to fight. All I know how to do is stay alive.

When the axe came into the forest, the trees said the handle is one of us.

Most times mens look pretty much alike to me.

God is inside you and inside everybody else. You come into the world with God. But only them that search for it inside find it. And sometimes it just manifest itself even if you not looking, or don't know what you looking for.

It is true I've always loved the daring ones like the black young man who tried to crash all barriers at once, wanted to swim at a white beach (in Alabama) Nude.

That summer marked the beginning of a realization that I could never live happily in Africa--or anywhere else--until I could live freely in Mississippi.

Deep in my heart I care about God. What he going to think. And come to find out, he don't think. Just sit up there glorying in being deef, I reckon. But it ain't easy, trying to do without God. Even if you know he ain't there, trying to do without him is a strain.

I remember one time you said your life made you feel so ashamed you couldn't even talk about it to God, you had to write it, bad as you thought your writing was.

I think part of my illogical despair had been due to my sense of political powerlessness, caused to some extent by a lack of living models.

Do you? Do you know what really went on in the Twin Towers? I don't.

Dear God, Harpo ast his daddy why he beat me. Mr —— say, Cause she my wife. Plus, she stubborn. All women good for – he don't finish. He just tuck his chin over the paper like he do. Remind me of Pa.

There is so much we don't understand. And so much happiness comes because of that.

Why can't Tashi come to school? she asked me. When I told her the Olinka don't believe in educating girls she said, quick as a flash, They're like white people at home who don't want colored people to learn.

June. June is a good time to go off into the world.

Shug say, Albert. Try to think like you got some sense. Why any woman give a shit what people think is a mystery to me.

There we are informed that He is the father of Jesus, who we invariably see depicted as a white man. He thinks we are born of sin and embody it; he thinks man should have dominion over the earth, which includes land and water, women, animals and children.

Wives is like children. You have to let 'em know who got the upper hand. Nothing can do that better than a good sound beating.

Here us is, I thought, two old fools left over from love, keeping each other company under the stars.