Top 219 Quotes by Alice Walker

About Alice Walker

These are some quotes by American author Alice Walker Author, who was born on February 9, 1944.

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.

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.

Alice Walker

From infancy, I have relied on the fiercely sweet spirits of black men; and this is abundantly clear in my work.

From infancy, I have relied on the fiercely sweet spirits of black men; and this is abundantly clear in my work.

Alice Walker

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.

Alice Walker

Many readers fail to realize this, but 'The Color Purple' is a theological text. It is about the reclamation of one's original God: the earth and nature.

Many readers fail to realize this, but 'The Color Purple' is a theological text. It is about the reclamation of one's original God: the earth and nature.

Alice Walker

In the summer of 1966, I went to Mississippi to be in the heart of the civil-rights movement, helping people who had been thrown off the farms or taken off the welfare roles for registering to vote. While working there, I met the civil-rights lawyer I later married - we became an interracial couple.

Alice Walker

Women have to be extremely careful about choosing something that they consider an act of defiance that can really be used to further their enslavement.

Women have to be extremely careful about choosing something that they consider an act of defiance that can really be used to further their enslavement.

Alice Walker

Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.

Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.

Alice Walker

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.

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.

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.

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

I'm sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power.

I'm sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power.

Alice Walker

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