Quote

HELPED are those who laugh with a pure heart theirs will be the company of the jolly righteous.

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
Humour
Righteous
Helped
Laugh
Pure
Laughing
Company
Heart
Jolly

More quotes by Alice Walker

Image
Only dead people need loud music, you know.
Alice Walker
Image
The nature of this flower is to bloom.
Alice Walker
Image
Time moves slowly, but passes quickly.
Alice Walker
Image
To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.
Alice Walker
Image
What gardening teaches us is that if you plant things, they'll come up. But you have to be willing to wait for them to bear fruit because things are seasonal.
Alice Walker
Image
I have never felt that the one thing that I am 'known for' is what I am.
Alice Walker
Image
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
Image
HELPED are those whose ever act is a prayer for harmony in the Universe, for they are the restorers of balance to our planet. To them will be given the insight that every good act done anywhere in the cosmos welcomes the life of an animal or a child.
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
The only way to solace anyone who loved you in life is to be a good memory
Alice Walker
Image
She was so quiet. So reflective. And she could erase herself, her spirit, with a swiftness that truly startled, when she knew the people around her could not respect it.
Alice Walker
Image
When life descends into the pit I must become my own candle Willingly burning my self To light up the darkness around me.
Alice Walker
Image
Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
Alice Walker
Image
... my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
Alice Walker
Image
I have fought and kicked and fasted and prayed and cursed and cried myself to the point of existing.
Alice Walker
Image
People are called 'stars' not only because they shine... because the qualities they exemplify are... eternal. We are attracted to their sparkle, their warmth, their light, but they will be forever distant from us. So distant we can never quite believe our inseparability. Never quite believe that we are also composed of the light they have.
Alice Walker
Image
Helped are those too busy living to respond when they are wrongfully attacked: on their walks they shall find mysteries so intriguing as to distract them from every blow.
Alice Walker
Image
it is this broken road with pitfalls and sharp turns and unexpected traverses that has brought me joy and adventure.
Alice Walker
Image
I know what I'm thinking bout, I think. Nothing. And as much of it as I can.
Alice Walker
Image
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