Alice Walker Quotes

Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.
Alice Walker

Happiness, Happy, Yourself

'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

Best, Gratitude, Humility

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

Friendship, Friend, Person

Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.
Alice Walker

Mom, Mother, Greatest

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

Power, Thinking, Give

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.
Alice Walker

Nature, God, Off

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

Women, Men, Black

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

Making, Holy, Rest

And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.
Alice Walker

Flower, Creative, Often

I'm entirely interested in people, and also other creatures and beings, but especially in people, and I tend to read them by emotional field more than anything. So I have a special interest in what they're thinking and who they are and who's hiding behind those eyes and how did he get there, and what's the story, really?
Alice Walker

Emotional, Thinking, Eyes

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

Sister, Anywhere, Comforting

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

Freedom, Today, Lonely

In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.
Alice Walker

Gardening, Mother, Found

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.
Alice Walker

Nature, Beautiful, Nothing

We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.
Alice Walker

Children, Start, Teaching

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
Alice Walker

Live, Nothing, Expect

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

Daily, Figure, Practical

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.
Alice Walker

Money, Yourself, Long

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.
Alice Walker

Death, Life, Boring

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

Wish, Actually, Foolish

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.
Alice Walker

Power, Government, Confused

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

Life, Change, Time

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

Best, Fear, School

I see children, all children, as humanity's most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left.
Alice Walker

Care, Children, Humanity

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

Mom, Simple, Mothers

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Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: February 9, 1944

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