Quote

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.

Alice Walker

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
Actor
Author
Civil Rights Advocate
Climate Activist
Educator
Essayist
Film Producer
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
Eatonton
Georgia
Alice Malsenior Walker
Alice Walker Leventhal
Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker
Color
Notice
Walks
Appreciation
Religious
Field
Religion
God
Nature
Somewhere
Pisses
Think
Inspiring
Godly
Thinking
Fields
Purple
Walk
Colour

More quotes by Alice Walker

Image
As long as the Earth can make a spring every year, I can. As long as the Earth can flower and produce nurturing fruit, I can, because I'm the Earth. I won't give up until the Earth gives up.
Alice Walker
Image
I can imagine in years to come that my papers and memorabilia, my journals and letters, will find themselves always in the company of people who care about many of the things I do.
Alice Walker
Image
As an elder of the Americas and of the rest of the planet, it is my responsibility to care for and protect, to the best of my ability, the young.
Alice Walker
Image
I think that indigenous women's wisdom is crucial. So much of the care of the Earth has come from the mothers. I think it's imperative we turn to their wisdom in how to take care of the planet.
Alice Walker
Image
We're going to have to debunk the myth that Africa is a heaven for black people -- especially black women. We've been the mule of the world there and the mule of the world here.
Alice Walker
Image
... my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
Alice Walker
Image
But it ain't easy, trying to do without God even if you know he ain't there, trying to do without him is a strain
Alice Walker
Image
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
Image
Decide that you know what you think is good for you and go ahead and do it.
Alice Walker
Image
The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.
Alice Walker
Image
Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.
Alice Walker
Image
I don't require myself or anyone to go beyond what they feel they can do. I just do suggest - for their own eventual happiness - that they go as far as they can. They can usually go much further than they think.
Alice Walker
Image
Well, capitalism is a big problem, because with capitalism you're just going to keep buying and selling things until there's nothing else to buy and sell, which means gobbling up the planet.
Alice Walker
Image
Books became my world because the world I was in was very hard.
Alice Walker
Image
The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.
Alice Walker
Image
Stretching [and] yoga [are] very helpful. All of these things - they really do help. Good food and a lot of sleep. And reading - reading good books. Sometimes movies - although a lot of the movies are difficult.
Alice Walker
Image
If I'm killed - if I'm removed - there is nowhere else for me to go but to my ancestors.
Alice Walker
Image
We have elders who [are] misguided and wallowing around in troughs of money with the wrong sort. They're not really good elders for the youth to emulate. The youth rightly don't like them.
Alice Walker
Image
To know is to exist to exist is to be involved, to move about, to see the world with my own eyes.
Alice Walker
Image
I come from somewhere and from specific black people in the South, including my parents, who built our first school, and rebuilt it after it was burned to the ground. And they used to bake pies and cakes to raise money to keep it going. So, I learned to struggle from a very early way in a way that was truly indigenous to the South.
Alice Walker