"I understood at a very early age that in nature, I felt everything I should feel in church but never did. Walking in the woods, I felt in touch with the universe and with the spirit of the universe."
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Quotes by Alice Walker
Alice Walker, born on February 9, 1944, in Eatonton, Georgia, is a celebrated American author, poet, and activist, best known for her groundbreaking novel, "The Color Purple," which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1983. Walker's work often explores themes of race, gender, and the complexities of the African American experience. A prominent voice in both literary and social justice circles, her legacy endures through her unwavering commitment to empowering marginalized communities and her profound contributions to contemporary literature.
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"You know how big love is? Love is big. love can hold anger; love can even hold hatred."
Alice Walker
"As long as the people don't fear the truth, there is hope. For once they fear it, the one who tells it doesn't stand a chance. And today, truth is still beautiful... but so frightening."
Alice Walker"Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it."
Alice Walker
"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 it."
Alice Walker"The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate."
Alice Walker"For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged."
Alice Walker"I made my first white women friends in college; they loved me and were loyal to our friendship, but I understood, as they did, that they were white women and that whiteness mattered."
Alice Walker"I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it."
Alice Walker"Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it's a good place that we're all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it."
Alice Walker"Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself."
Alice Walker"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"Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me."
Alice Walker"How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names."
Alice Walker"Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom."
Alice Walker
"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any."
Alice Walker
"Creation is a sustained period of bliss, even though the subject can still be very sad. Because there's the triumph of coming through and understanding that you have, and that you did it the way only you could do it. You didn't do it the way somebody told you to do it."
Alice Walker
"The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account."
Alice Walker
"'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding."
Alice Walker"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"In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful."
Alice Walker"For me, I used to be shy towards journalism because it wasn't poetry. And then I realized that the events that I covered in essays that became journalism were actually great because they inspired me, and they became my muse."
Alice Walker"One of the triumphs of the Civil Rights Movement is that when you travel through the South today, you do not feel overwhelmed by a residue of grievance and hate."
Alice Walker"We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that's going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it."
Alice Walker