Best Alice Walker Quotes
1- “Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.” ~ Alice Walker
2- “No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.” ~ Alice Walker
3- “Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.” ~ Alice Walker
4- “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” ~ Alice Walker
5- “There is no graceful way to carry hatred.” ~ Alice Walker
6- “‘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
7- “In every life there comes a point when you have to make a decision about how you will live.” ~ Alice Walker
8- “I don’t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends I can be certain of.” ~ Alice Walker
9- “A writer’s heart, a poet’s heart, an artist’s heart, a musician’s heart is always breaking. It is through that broken window that we see the world.” ~ Alice Walker
10- “Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.” ~ Alice Walker
11- “Activism is the rent I pay for living on this planet.” ~ Alice Walker
12- “To acknowledge our ancestors means we are aware that we did not make ourselves, that the line stretches all the way back, perhaps to God; or to Gods. We remember them because it is an easy thing to forget: that we are not the first to suffer, rebel, fight, love and die. The grace with which we embrace life, in spite of the pain, the sorrow, is always a measure of what has gone before.” ~ Alice Walker
13- “Healing begins where the wound was made.” ~ Alice Walker
14- “What the mind doesn’t understand, it worships or fears.” ~ Alice Walker
15- “You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.” ~ Alice Walker
16- “we are the ones we have been waiting for” ~ Alice Walker
17- “Time moves slowly, but passes quickly.” ~ Alice Walker
18- “Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited.” ~ Alice Walker
19- “People who work hard often work too hard. … May we learn to honor the hammock, the siesta, the nap and the pause in all its forms.” ~ Alice Walker
20- “It has become a common feeling, I believe, as we have watched our heroes falling over the years, that our own small stone of activism, which might not seem to measure up to the rugged boulders of heroism we have so admired, is a paltry offering toward the building of an edifice of hope. Many who believe this choose to withhold their offerings out of shame. This is the tragedy of the world. For we can do nothing substantial toward changing our course on the planet, a destructive one, without rousing ourselves, individual by individual, and bringing our small, imperfect stones to the pile.” ~ Alice Walker
21- “Human compassion is equal to human cruelty, and it is up to each of us to tip the balance.” ~ Alice Walker
22- “Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.” ~ Alice Walker
23- “the world has changed: it did not change without your prayers without your faith without your determination to believe in liberation and kindness; without your dancing through the years that had no beat.” ~ Alice Walker
24- “Propaganda is amazing,
people can be led to believe anything.” ~ Alice Walker
25- “Whenever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared. I have been helped, supported, encouraged and nurtured by people of all races, creeds, colors and dreams.” ~ Alice Walker
26- “The nature of this flower is to bloom.” ~ Alice Walker
27- “I am an expression of the divine, just like a peach is, just like a fish is. I have a right to be this way…I can’t apologize for that, nor can I change it, nor do I want to… We will never have to be other than who we are in order to be successful…We realize that we are as ourselves unlimited and our experiences valid. It is for the rest of the world to recognize this, if they choose.” ~ Alice Walker
28- “When the ax came into the forest the trees said the handle is one of us.” ~ Alice Walker
29- “Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.” ~ Alice Walker
30- “We are all substantially flawed, wounded, angry, hurt, here on Earth. But this human condition, so painful to us, and in someways shameful- because we feel we are weak when the reality of ourselves is exposed- is made much more bearable when it is shared, face to face, in words that have expressive human eyes behind them.” ~ Alice Walker
31- “As I get older, I realize that the thing I value the most is good-heartednes s.” ~ Alice Walker
32- “Storytelling is how we survive, when there’s no feed, the story feeds something, it feeds the spirit, the imagination. I can’t imagine life without stories, stories from my parents, my culture. Stories from other people’s parents, their culture. That’s how we learn from each other, it’s the best way. That’s why literature is so important, it connects us heart to heart.” ~ Alice Walker
33- “If I could live as a tree, as a river, as the moon, as the sun, as a star, as the earth, as a rock, I would. …Writing permits me to experience life as any number of strange creations.” ~ Alice Walker
34- “Anything we love can be saved.” ~ Alice Walker
35- “Be compassionate to everyone. Don’t just search for whatever it is that annoys and frightens you-see beyond those things to the basic human being. Especially see the child in the man or woman. Even if they are destroying you, allow a moment to see how lost in their own delusion and suffering they are.” ~ Alice Walker
36- “It just seems clear to me that as long as we are all here, it’s pretty clear that the struggle is to share the planet, rather than divide it.” ~ Alice Walker
37- “Writing about people helps us to understand them, and understanding them helps us to accept them as part of ourselves.” ~ Alice Walker
38- “Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don’t even recognize that growth is happening…Those long periods when something inside ourselves seems to be waiting, holding its breath, unsure about what the next step should be, eventually become the periods we wait for, for it is in those periods that we realize that we are being prepared for the next phase of our life and that, in all probability, a new level of the personality is about to be revealed.” ~ Alice Walker
39- “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
40- “Every soul is to be cherished, every flower is to bloom.” ~ Alice Walker
41- “Being happy is not the only happiness.” ~ Alice Walker
42- “Surely the earth can be saved by all the people who insist on love.” ~ Alice Walker
43- “Nature has created us with the capacity to know God, to experience God.” ~ Alice Walker
44- “In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.” ~ Alice Walker
45- “Criticism is painful when it’s not done with love.” ~ Alice Walker
46- “The most important question in the world is, ‘Why is the child crying?'” ~ Alice Walker
47- “I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.” ~ Alice Walker
48- “Any God I ever found in church, I brought in myself.” ~ Alice Walker
49- “How we come into this world, how we are ushered in, met, and hopefully embraced upon arrival, impacts the whole of our time on earth.” ~ Alice Walker
50- “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
