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

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  • It's very hard for our parents who see us enter a world that they can't imagine.
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  • Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.
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  • Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.
    (2018)
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  • Meditation has been a loyal friend to me. It has helped me write my books.
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  • My family was a poor farming family, and we lived under absolute segregation.
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  • Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.
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  • No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
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  • Nobody has ever convinced me that race is real.
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  • Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.
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  • Only dead people need loud music.
    The Temple of My Familiar (1989)
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  • Part of my ancestry is Cherokee. And in that tradition, you become an adult when you're 52.
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  • People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.
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  • People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don't.
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  • People will say to you, Oh, you are fearless. That is so not true. We should stop saying that about people. It's a slander, really.
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  • Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
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  • She say, Celie, tell the truth, have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show. Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. And I think all the other folks did too. They come to church to share God, not find God.
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  • Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.
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  • 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.
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  • The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.
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  • The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.
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