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

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

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

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

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

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

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
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

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

Horses make a landscape look beautiful.
Alice Walker

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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