Alice Walker

“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.”

“The Nature of This Flower is to bloom.”

“I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.”

“Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams.”

“Is solace anywhere more comforting than in the arms of sisters?”

“The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.”

“As long as the Earth can make a spring every year, I can. As long as the Earth can flower and produce nurturing fruit, I can, because I'm the Earth. I won't give up until the Earth gives up.”

“It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's "mature" critics often are.”

“Everything want to be loved. Us sing and dance and holler, just trying to be loved.”

“Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.”

“I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ask. And that in wondering bout the big things and asking bout the big things, you learn about the little ones, almost by accident. But you n...”

“Man corrupt everything, say Shug. He on your box of grits, in your head, and all over the radio. He try to make you think he everywhere. Soon as you think he everywhere, you think he God. Bu...”

“Listen, God love everything you love - and a mess of stuff you don't. But more than anything else, God love admiration. You saying God vain? I ast. Naw, she say. Not vain, just wanting to sh...”

“Here's the thing, say Shug. The thing I believe. God is inside you and inside everybody else. You come into the world with God. But only them that search for it inside find it. And sometimes...”

“But it ain't easy, trying to do without God even if you know he ain't there, trying to do without him is a strain”

“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.”

“If you're silent for a long time, people just arrive in your mind.”

“Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.”

“I've found, in my own writing, that a little hatred, keenly directed, is a useful thing.”