“Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.”
Happiness
“In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.”
GardeningAll Quotes by Alice Walker
“The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.”
Society“To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.”
Future“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“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“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“We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that's going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.”
Change“As you know from school, it's when you have not prepared for the test that you have the fear of failing. And if you have prepared, even if you fail, you've done your best.”
Best“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“I'm for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.”
Women“All History is current all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.”
History“As an elder of the Americas and of the rest of the planet, it is my responsibility to care for and protect, to the best of my ability, the young.”
Best“I'm sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power.”
Power“I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.”
Money“I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.”
God“Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.”
Death“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“For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.”
Freedom“My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father's head. It taught me about women defending themselves and not collapsing in a heap.”
Women