100 Inspiring Quotes By Alice Walker, The Author Of The Color Purple
Alice Walker is a poet, novelist, short story writer and social activist from the United States, who rose to prominence in the 20th century and remains one of the foremost intellectuals of the world. She was born in a poor family but her mother made sure that she was educated and Walker had secretly started writing stories from as early an age as eight. After graduating from Sarah Lawrence College, Walker plunged straight into the world of activism by joining voter registration campaigns and other welfare programs. She had been interested in the Civil Rights Movement and the movement had a profound influence on her as an activist. Walker’s writing career is best known for the book ‘The Color Purple’ published in 1982 that made her one of the better known writers in the world. It won her the National Book Award and more importantly, she was also awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Her other notable works as a writer include ‘The Third Life of Grange Copeland’ and ‘Meridian’, both of which further enhanced her reputation as a writer of rare skill. Walker is a woman who is a great orator and here are some of the more famous quotes from her life as a writer, activist and public intellectual.
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.
Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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.
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.
What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.
Be nobody's darling; Be an outcast. Take the contradictions Of your life And wrap around You like a shawl, To parry stones To keep you warm.
Even as I hold you, I am letting you go.
Activism is my rent for living on the planet.
Everything want to be loved. Us sing and dance and holler, just trying to be loved.
Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
Time moves slowly, but passes quickly.
I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.
Any God I ever found in church, I brought in myself.
In nature, nothing is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways and they're still beautiful.
Horses make a landscape look beautiful.
Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.
The nature of this flower is to bloom.
I'm mad about the waste that happens when people who love each other can't even bring themselves to talk.
In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.
We are the ones we have been waiting for
Helped are those who are content to be themselves; they will never lack mystery in their lives and the joys of self-discovery will be constant.
When life descends into the pit I must become my own candle Willingly burning my self To light up the darkness around me.
A grown child is a dangerous thing.
Oh, Celie, unbelief is a terrible thing. And so is the hurt we cause others unknowingly.
Never offer your heart to someone who eats hearts who finds heartmeat delicious but not rare who sucks the juices drop by drop and bloody-chinned grins like a God.
The more I wonder, the more I love.
Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.
She was so quiet. So reflective. And she could erase herself, her spirit, with a swiftness that truly startled, when she knew the people around her could not respect it.
