Quotes from Alice Walker
This life soon be over, I say. Heaven last all ways.
- Alice Walker
Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.
- Alice Walker
The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'
- Alice Walker
Since the time of the witch burnings, the grandmothers and the healers and the midwives have been systematically targeted. And burned at the stake for hundreds of years, decimating whole communities.
- Alice Walker
Many readers fail to realize this, but 'The Color Purple' is a theological text. It is about the reclamation of one's original God: the earth and nature.
- Alice Walker
'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say.
- Alice Walker
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
I consider the fact that thousands of children die each day from starvation and a lack of medicine a crisis for humanity and a problem we must collectively attempt to solve.
- 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
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
Hope to sin only in the service of waking up.
- Alice Walker
If you want to have a life that is worth living, a life that expresses your deepest feelings and emotions and cares and dreams, you have to fight for it.
- Alice Walker