Quotes by Alice Walker

About Alice Walker:

Alice Malsenior Walker is an American author and activist. She wrote the critically acclaimed novel The Color Purple (1982) for which she won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. She also wrote Meridian and The Third Life of Grange Copeland among other works.
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Even as I hold you, I am letting you go.

Alice Walker

Expect nothing. Live frugally On surprise. become a stranger To need of pity Or, if compassion be freely Given out Take only enough Stop short of urge to plead Then purge away the need. Wish for nothing larger Than your own small heart Or greater tha...

Alice Walker

Even as I hold you I think of you as someone gone far, far away. Your eyes the color of pennies in a bowl of dark honey bringing sweet light to someone else your black hair slipping through my fingers is the flash of your head going around a corner y...

Alice Walker

If you're silent for a long time, people just arrive in your mind.

Alice Walker

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

Alice Walker

Because you rubbed my shoulder last night a poem traveled down my arm.

Alice Walker

Long as I can spell G-o-d I got somebody along.

Alice Walker

Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.

Alice Walker

Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.

Alice Walker

We must do everything in our power to cease the behaviour that makes children everywhere feel afraid.

Alice Walker

I'm sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power.

Alice Walker

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

I just like to have words that describe things correctly. Now to me, 'black feminist' does not do that. I need a word that is organic, that really comes out of the culture, that really expresses the spirit that we see in black women. And it's just......

Alice Walker

Women have to be extremely careful about choosing something that they consider an act of defiance that can really be used to further their enslavement.

Alice Walker

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.

Alice Walker

I'm for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.

Alice Walker

I think the War on Terror is really absurd, especially coming from a country that is founded on terrorism.

Alice Walker

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 ...

Alice Walker

I'm very disappointed in Obama. I was very much in support of him in the beginning, but I cannot support war. I cannot support droning. I cannot support capitulating to the banks.

Alice Walker

I think war is so incredibly backward, and I don't think it's intelligent, and it's not sane. So why would you want to support it?

Alice Walker

Author Bio

  • NameAlice Walker
  • DescriptionAmerican author and activist
  • BornFebruary 9, 1944
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Poet; Novelist
  • WorksThe Color Purple
  • AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship; National Book Award; Lillian Smith Book Award; Lillian Smith Book Award; Humanist Of The Year