Alice Walker Quotes

Biography: Alice Walker is known for her acclaimed novel "The Color Purple." Born... more Biography: Alice Walker is known for her acclaimed novel "The Color Purple." Born in 1944 in Georgia, she is a renowned author, poet, and activist. Her work often explores themes of race, gender, and social justice. Walker's contributions to literature have earned her numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. less

"I am an optimist, even though I am not daunted by the contradictions and the nightmare future that is emerging.""I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ask. And that in wondering 'bout the big things and asking 'bout the big things, you learn about the little ones, almost by accident. But you never know nothing more about the big things than you start out with. The more I wonder, the more I love.""I wonder if life is ever lived well by anybody, if there is any one thing that might be called a success—except survival.""Being happy is not the only happiness.""Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.""Part of what existence means to me is knowing the difference between what I am now and what I was then.""Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.""The animals of the planet are in desperate peril. Without free animal life, I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen.""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.""Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don’t even recognize that growth is happening.""People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.""To acknowledge our ancestors means we are aware that we did not make ourselves.""I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.""The more I wonder, the more I love.""The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.""I'm mad about the waste that happens when people who love each other can't even bring themselves to talk.""The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.""Activism is my rent for living on the planet.""Writing saves me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.""Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming."

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