Quotes of Alice Walker - somelinesforyou

“ The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen. ”

- Alice Walker

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

- Alice Walker

“ It just seems clear to me that as long as we are all here, it’s pretty clear that the struggle is to share the planet, rather than divide it. ”

- Alice Walker

“ Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming. ”

- Alice Walker

“ No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow. ”

- Alice Walker

“ Being happy is not the only happiness. ”

- Alice Walker

“ As I get older, I realize that the thing I value the most is good-heartedness. ”

- Alice Walker

“ No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow. ”

- Alice Walker

“ The nature of this flower is to bloom. ”

- Alice Walker

“ No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow. ”

- Alice Walker

“ 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. ”

- Alice Walker

“ What the mind doesn’t understand, it worships or fears. ”

- Alice Walker

“ No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow. ”

- Alice Walker

“ The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. ”

- Alice Walker

“ Activism is the rent I pay for living on this planet. ”

- Alice Walker

“ If art doesn’t make us better, then what on earth is it for. ”

- Alice Walker

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

- Alice Walker

“ Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul. ”

- Alice Walker

“ I think it annoys God if you walk by the color purple in a field and don’t notice. ”

- Alice Walker

“ The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. ”

- Alice Walker

“ All history is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world. ”

- Alice Walker

“ In search of my mother’s garden, I found my own. ”

- Alice Walker

“ Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul. ”

- Alice Walker

“ No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow. ”

- Alice Walker

“ Look closely at the present you are constructing. It should look like the future you are dreaming. ”

- Alice Walker

“ In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful. ”

- Alice Walker

“ The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. ”

- Alice Walker

“ The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. ”

- Alice Walker

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

- Alice Walker

“ Expect nothing. Live frugally On surprise. become a stranger To need of pity Or, if compassion be freely Given out Take only enough Stop short of urge to plead Then purge away the need. Wish for nothing larger Than your own small heart Or greater than a star; Tame wild disappointment With caress unmoved and cold Make of it a parka For your soul. Discover the reason why So tiny human midget Exists at all So scared unwise But expect nothing. Live frugally On surprise. ”

- Alice Walker
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