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

It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.
Alice Walker

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.
Alice Walker

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

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

The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.
Alice Walker

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

The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'
Alice Walker

The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.
Alice Walker

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

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

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

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

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