Quotes by Alice Walker

Alice Walker

Alice Walker

American Author, Critic

Lived from: 1944 - 1982

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 9 february 1944 Died: 14 october 1982

  • All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.
  • Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.
  • The sight of a Black nun strikes their sentimentality; and, as I am unalterably rooted in native ground, they consider me a work of primitive art, housed in a magical color; the incarnation of civilized, anti-heathenism, and the fruit of a triumphing idea.
  • People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.
  • I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.
  • The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
  • 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 hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.
  • I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.
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  • All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.
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  • It's not possible to stop love.
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  • Propaganda is amazing. People can be led to believe anything.
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  • The dropping of bombs on people - isn't that terrorism?
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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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  • Activism is the rent I pay for living on this planet.
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  • All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.
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  • Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.
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  • Be an outcast. Be pleased to walk alone.
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  • Criticism is painful when it's not done with love.
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  • Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it 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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  • Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.
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  • Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise.
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  • Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
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  • Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.
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  • 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.
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  • Healing begins where the wound was made.
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  • Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful.
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What are the most famous quotes from Alice Walker?

The two most famous quotes from Alice Walker are:

  • "All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience."
  • "It's not possible to stop love.
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When did Alice Walker live?

Alice Walker was born in 1944 and died in the year 1982.