All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.
- Alice Walker Quote

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.
- Alice Walker Quote

Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me.
- Alice Walker Quote

Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.
- Alice Walker Quote

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
- Alice Walker Quote

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.
- Alice Walker Quote

Horses make a landscape look beautiful.
- Alice Walker Quote

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
- Alice Walker Quote

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.
- Alice Walker Quote

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.
- Alice Walker Quote

I try to teach my heart not to want things it can't have.
- Alice Walker Quote

Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.
- Alice Walker Quote

It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's "mature" critics often are.
- Alice Walker Quote

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.
- Alice Walker Quote

Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.
- Alice Walker Quote

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
- Alice Walker Quote

People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.
- Alice Walker Quote

Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.
- Alice Walker Quote

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.
- Alice Walker Quote

The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.
- Alice Walker Quote

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
- Alice Walker Quote

The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'
- Alice Walker Quote

The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.
- Alice Walker Quote

There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through any spiritual or moral or physical devastation.
- Alice Walker Quote

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.
- Alice Walker Quote

Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?
- Alice Walker Quote

What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.
- Alice Walker Quote

Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.
- Alice Walker Quote

Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.
- Alice Walker Quote