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220 quotes by Alice Walker

Website alicewalkersgarden.com Alice Malsenior Walker (born February 9, 1944) is an American author and activist. She wrote the critically acclaimed novel The Color Purple (1982) for which she won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
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'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.

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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

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The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

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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... →

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Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.

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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... →

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I grew up in the South under segregation. So, I know what terrorism feels like - when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and... →

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Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.

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Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life... →

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Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.

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

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And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never... →

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I'm not lesbian; I'm not bisexual; I'm not straight. I'm just curious.

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