127 Alice Walker Quotes for You to Enjoy

Alice Walker

American Author

Born: Feb 9, 1944

Life Me People Think World You

Related authors: F. Scott Fitzgerald Frederick Douglass Helen Keller Henry David Thoreau Joyce Meyer Mark Twain Og Mandino Zig Ziglar

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

Jokes People Power Those Sure American American People Butt

I love the natural world - it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved. Alice Walker

Love Culture Natural People World Enslaved Out Grew Which Natural World

You have to give others the opportunity to love who you love. If they don't accept it, it's their loss. Alice Walker

Love You Opportunity Others Give Accept Loss To Love Who

One of the triumphs of the Civil Rights Movement is that when you travel through the South today, you do not feel overwhelmed by a residue of grievance and hate. Alice Walker

Today You Travel Rights Hate Rights Movement Civil Civil Rights Civil Rights Movement Triumphs Through Feel South Overwhelmed Movement Grievance

A good model of how to 'work with the enemy' internally is presented by the Dalai Lama, in his endless caretaking of his soul as he confronts the Chinese government that invaded Tibet. Alice Walker

Work Government Good Soul Enemy Invaded He Tibet How His Model Endless Lama Chinese Chinese Government Dalai Dalai Lama Presented

I made my first white women friends in college; they loved me and were loyal to our friendship, but I understood, as they did, that they were white women and that whiteness mattered. Alice Walker

Friendship Me Women Made College First White Our Understood Were Friends Mattered Did Loved White Women Whiteness Loyal

I think America has always been polarized. Alice Walker

Think Polarized Always Been America

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

You Walk Dance Flower Trees Everything Git Give Faces Except Attention Bouquet Sing Make Trying Loved Us Notice Ever

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. 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

Experience Understanding Society Add Our Adds Must Case Allow Never Partisan Any Movements Them Fullness Whole

Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful. Alice Walker

Own Creation Universe Those Responsible Relive Thrill Shall Conception Cheerful Partnership Anything Them Realize Create Who Helped Keeps

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

History Injustice World Somewhere Some Current Level

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

Spiritual People Joy Will Black Believe Secret Possess Those Moral Physical Through Devastation Any Sustain The Secret Of Them Who

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. Alice Walker

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

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

Best Care Responsibility Rest Young Ability Protect Elder Planet Americas

I have never felt that the one thing that I am 'known for' is what I am. Alice Walker

One Thing Never Known Felt Am The One Thing Thing

I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself - then they get to say 'See, you did it yourself.' Alice Walker

Education History You Women Yourself Will Men Cruelty Own Sense Enough Say See Seeing Delight Take Understand Get Did Which Capable Then Convinced Choose Many Chain

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

Women Whatever Know Doing Want Really Choosing

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