Quote

What I am really interested in is that I want people to be thinking in other ways - to stop thinking they have to remain glued to a system that has failed and to ideas about society that's necessarily about being run by Democrats or Republicans.

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
People
Ways
Democrats
Stop
Failed
Society
Democrat
Running
Necessarily
Ideas
Remain
Really
Republican
Way
Interested
Glued
Thinking
System
Republicans

More quotes by Alice Walker

Image
I want something else a different system entirely. One not seen on this earth for thousands of years. If ever. Democratic Womanism. Notice how this word has man right in the middle of it? That's one reason I like it. He is right there, front and center. But he is surrounded. I want to vote and work for a way of life that honors the feminine.
Alice Walker
Image
I am not interested in being a role model, or in fulfilling the expectations of others. I know I am of most use to others and to myself by being this unique self: Nature, I have noticed, is not particularly devoted to copies, and human beings needn't be either.
Alice Walker
Image
I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America's really large shadow and that's not all that bad.
Alice Walker
Image
As long as the Earth can make a spring every year, I can.
Alice Walker
Image
I realized I was a country person - I'm just not used to small spaces.
Alice Walker
Image
In every life there comes a point when you have to make a decision about how you will live.
Alice Walker
Image
We will be ourselves and free, or die in the attempt. Harriet Tubman was not our great-grandmother for nothing.
Alice Walker
Image
Writing about people helps us to understand them, and understanding them helps us to accept them as part of ourselves.
Alice Walker
Image
Helped are those who forgive their reward shall be forgetfulness of every evil done to them. It will be in their power, therefore, to envision the new Earth. -----“The Gospel According to Shug
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
Like I said...fine with me.
Alice Walker
Image
Poetry, I have discovered, is always unexpected and always as faithful and honest as dreams.
Alice Walker
Image
Yoga means to bind back, unite. To bring the body and the soul together. For this reason the practice of yoga is a holy endeavor and the teaching of it to our people a very high calling.
Alice Walker
Image
All History is current all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.
Alice Walker
Image
HELPED are those whose every act is a prayer for peace on them depends the future of the world.
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
I feel like to be where you need to be - where you know you need to be - is such a high. What could be better?
Alice Walker
Image
I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.
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
The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn't want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass.
Alice Walker