X

Sort by

Quote length

Sentiment

Change font

Change background

Alice Walker Inspirational Quotes (388)

Page 10 of 17
Filter & Style
Image
HELPED are those who laugh with a pure heart theirs will be the company of the jolly righteous.
Alice Walker
Image
Our problem mostly in our abuse of each other and the planet is greed. Just the rampant, incredible greed that people have partly because they're empty and they can't get enough because they're - you know, it's that Buddhist thing about the hungry ghost with the little mouth and the big belly.
Alice Walker
Image
America is America. It's a capitalist system. They [leaders] have enshrined that belief that profit matters more than anything else. The polarization of the society is just the resurfacing of that.
Alice Walker
Image
Well, sometime Mr —— git on me pretty hard. I have to talk to Old Maker. But he my husband. I shrug my shoulders. This life soon be over, I say. Heaven last all ways. You ought to bash Mr —— head open, she say. Think bout heaven later.
Alice Walker
Image
I'm sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power.
Alice Walker
Image
I believe God is everything, say Shug. Everything that is or ever was or ever will be. And when you can feel that, and be happy to feel that, you've found It.
Alice Walker
Image
I feel I am a child that's lost its mother. I feel like a calf whose mother has gone off to slaughter.
Alice Walker
Image
I started out as a poet. I've always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be fundamentally a poet who got into writing novels.
Alice Walker
Image
I think that wealthy white people would like to have a country that resembles the Fifties, when all the minorities were tucked away in ghettos and paid in very low wages but on the surface it was very bright and shiny and free and the rest of the world would look on it longingly.
Alice Walker
Image
As we talked of freedom and justice one day for all, we sat down to steaks. I am eating misery, I thought, as I took the first bite. And spit it out.
Alice Walker
Image
I write not only what I want to read...I write all the things I should have been able to read.
Alice Walker
Image
But I don't know how to fight. All I know how to do is stay alive.
Alice Walker
Image
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
Image
But if by some miracle and all our struggle, the earth is spared, only justice to every living being will save humankind.
Alice Walker
Image
Just because I don't harass it like some peoples us know don't mean I ain't got religion.
Alice Walker
Image
I've found, in my own writing, that a little hatred, keenly directed, is a useful thing.
Alice Walker
Image
Healing begins where the wound was made.
Alice Walker
Image
Horses make a landscape look beautiful.
Alice Walker
Image
My writing is very organic. It's what I am. My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig. So I think of it as something that's very essential to my being.
Alice Walker
Image
Human compassion is equal to human cruelty, and it is up to each of us to tip the balance.
Alice Walker
Image
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
Image
Resistance is the secret of joy!
Alice Walker
Image
I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
Alice Walker
Image
I love the natural world - it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.
Alice Walker
Previous
Next