“Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.”
Happiness
“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.”
ArtAll Quotes by Alice Walker
“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.”
Government“The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.”
Society“How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.”
Mom“Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.”
Freedom“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.”
Art“My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.”
Work“It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.”
Women“The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.”
Faith“I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.”
God“Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom.”
Family“Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.”
Home“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.”
Power“Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.”
Mom“The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn't want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass.”
Money“'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.”
Best“War contributes greatly to global warming, which shouldn't surprise us. All those bombs going off, all those rockets, all those planes and helicopters. All that fuel of various kinds being used. It pollutes the air and water of this very fragile and interconnected planet.”
War“I'm for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.”
Women“All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.”
Experience“I'm sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power.”
Power