Quotes from Alice Walker

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 can't apologize for that, nor can I change it, nor do I want to... We will never have to be other than who we are in order to be successful...We realize that we are as ourselves unlimited and our experiences valid. It is for the rest of the world to recognize this, if they choose.

Anger can also be a kind of wealth, she thought.

Tea to the English is really picnic indoors. Plenty of sandwiches and cookies and of course hot tea. We all used the same cups and plates. (Walker 2000: 116)

We will never regret having been born in this cruel time for we recognize it for what it is: the time of fullness of heart.

I am telling you Discouraged One we will win. And I will show you why. We are the offspring of the ignorantly discarded: we conjure sunrise with our smiles and provoke music out of trash. Who can completely disappear such genius?

It not my salvation she working for. And if she don't learn she got to face judgment for herself, she won't even have live.

Nobody feel better for killing nothing. They feel something is all.

Well, us talk and talk bout God, but I'm still adrift. Trying to chase that old white man out of my head. I been so busy thinking bout him I never truly notice nothing God make. Not a blade of corn (how it do that?) not the color purple (where it come from?). Not the little wildflowers. Nothing.

A renglón seguido, empezó a mejorar. Y es que la maldad te mata, dice Sofia.

Still, it is like Shug say, You have to git man off your eyeball, before you can see anything a'tall

HELPED are those who find the courage to do at least one small thing each day to help the existence of another—plant, animal, river, or human being. They shall be joined by a multitude of the timid. H

You must harmonize your own heart... Only you will know how you can do that; for each of us it is different. Then harmonize, as much as this is ever possible, your surroundings.

Alice Walker "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 is all God cares about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.

a very sensitive soul who hears what isn't said as clearly as what is.

To work for peace Means First of all Not to be Ignorant About who Has none.

Because I know. Grown-up white men don't want to pretend to be anything else. Not even for a minute." "They'll become anything for as long as it takes to steal some land.

When the Buddha, dying, entreated his followers to "be a lamp unto your self," I understood he was willing to free his followers even from his own teachings. He had done all he could do, taught them everything he had learned. Now, their own enlightenment was up to them.

We zijn schijnbaar verantwoordelijk voor alles wat we doen, hoe de reeks van gebeurtenissen ook is begonnen.

And so I laughed. The laughter bubbled up, irrepressible. I saw the path to happiness and to liberation at a glance. It was inside myself.

I'm pore, black, I may even be ugly, but dear God, I'm here! I'm here!

Her eyes serious tho. Sad some.

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

He beat me when you not here, I say.

The brilliance of enslaving the spirit is that it is an invisible prison from which the inmate appears to derive some comfort.