Alice Walker Quotes

Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.
Alice Walker

Become, Actually, Ways

Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.
Alice Walker

Writing, Violence, Sin

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

Power, Powerful, Nobody

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

History, Injustice, Level

I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire and enjoy it; that's my religion.
Alice Walker

Religion, Enjoy, Free

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

Love, Heart, Learned

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

Heart, Try, Teach

What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.
Alice Walker

Mind, Understand, Fears

At one point I learned transcendental meditation. This was 30-something years ago. It took me back to the way that I naturally was as a child growing up way in the country, rarely seeing people. I was in that state of oneness with creation and it was as if I didn't exist except as a part of everything.
Alice Walker

Everything, Country, Learned

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

Life, Family, Women

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

Universe, Realize, Cheerful

Horses make a landscape look beautiful.
Alice Walker

Beautiful, Landscape, Horses

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, Women, Men

People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don't.
Alice Walker

Life, Everyone, Progress

Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.
Alice Walker

Feminist, Purple

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

Freedom, Someone, Wonderful

For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended.
Alice Walker

Time, Long, Thought

I'm the most stubborn person I know.
Alice Walker

Person, Stubborn

Israel is guilty of apartheid and persecution of the Palestinian people, both inside Israel and also in the Occupied Territories.
Alice Walker

Guilty, Both, Inside

It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.
Alice Walker

Time, Father, May

Sometimes, reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled, and can no longer spell or write a sentence.
Alice Walker

Sometimes, Write, Reading

The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.
Alice Walker

Faith, Understand, Sense

America is not nearly done. We're only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows... what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants - if they survive that long - will see.
Alice Walker

Long, Done, America

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

God, Church, Felt

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... womanish.
Alice Walker

Women, Black, Words

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Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: February 9, 1944

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