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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Peace": the fruit of justice done especially to the Self.

Alice Walker

You are all talking a bit too much, said Armando, who had cautioned them from the beginning to stay out of popular culture and in their own interior worlds. When you are caught up in the world that you did not design as support for your life and the ...

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'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.

Alice Walker

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.

Alice Walker

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.

Alice Walker

As far as a glass ceiling, I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts the universe has given you. And if you make it in some way that other people can recognize, that's fine. But even if you don't quote-unquote make ...

Alice Walker

The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

Alice Walker

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

If we want to fight people in the world, we should fight them with pillows - pillows stuffed with food, medicine, music... That would be so much cheaper than bombs.

Alice Walker

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

When I joined the freedom movement in Mississippi in my early 20s, it was to come to the aid of sharecroppers, like my parents, who had been thrown off the land they'd always known - the plantations - because they attempted to exercise their 'democra...

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Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.

Alice Walker

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.

Alice Walker

My family was a poor farming family, and we lived under absolute segregation.

Alice Walker

I continue to care for President Obama and for his family. I think that in many ways they are very courageous people, and I honor that, because I know what it means to live as a black person in a racist America.

Alice Walker

My parents taught me service - not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.

Alice Walker

Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams.

Alice Walker

As long as the people don't fear the truth, there is hope. For once they fear it, the one who tells it doesn't stand a chance. And today, truth is still beautiful... but so frightening.

Alice Walker

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.

Alice Walker

I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same time, there's a real lightheartedness about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they're not the same, ever again.

Alice Walker

Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.

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