Alice Walker
“Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.”
—Alice Walker
“Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make for yourself.”
—Alice Walker
“I believe in moments, collective action to influence the future.”
—Alice Walker
“Why any woman give a shit what people think is a mystery to me.”
—Alice Walker, The Color Purple
“War will stop when we no longer praise it, or give it any attention at all.”
—Alice Walker, Living by the Word
“There are ways that the spirit can be mended just as there are ways that the spirit can be broken.”
—Alice Walker, In Love and Trouble
“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
‘The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. ”
– Alice Walker
“Laughter isn’t even the other side of tears. It is tears turned inside out. Truly the suffering is great, here on earth. We blunder along, shredded by our mistakes, bludgeoned by our faults. Not having a clue where the dark path leads us. But on the whole, we stumble along bravely, don’t you think?”
― Alice Walker
“It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put – without delay, and with tenderness – back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try.”
– Alice Walker
“This is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money and power and no empathy. ”
– Alice Walker
“Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.”
– 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
“War contributes greatly to global warming, which shouldn’t surprise us. All those bombs going off, all those rockets, all those planes, and helicopters. All that fuel of various kinds being used. It pollutes the air and water of this very fragile and interconnected planet.”
– Alice Walker