The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. – Alice Walker
Activism is my rent for living on this planet. – Alice Walker
I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it. – Alice Walker
The most important question is, what are you doing for others? – Alice Walker
No person is your friend who demands your silence or denies your right to grow. – Alice Walker
The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one’s people that has not previously been taken into account. – Alice Walker
I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart. – Alice Walker
I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival. – Alice Walker
The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in. – Alice Walker
Resistance is the secret of joy! – Alice Walker
The nature of this flower is to bloom. – Alice Walker
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, but let’s leave that aside. – 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
Alice Walker Quotes – Inspiring Words from the Author and Activist part 2
In search of my mother’s garden, I found my own. – Alice Walker
Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it. – Alice Walker
Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise. – Alice Walker
Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence. – Alice Walker
Anything we love can be saved. – Alice Walker
It’s so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that’s what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower is to bloom. – Alice Walker
I find it impossible to trust people who don’t love themselves and yet tell me, ‘I love you.’ – Alice Walker
I’m thrilled to be alive in this wonderful era of possibilities. I hope you are, too. – Alice Walker
Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful. – Alice Walker
People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools. – Alice Walker
Activism is my rent for living on this planet. – Alice Walker
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow. – Alice Walker
Respect yourself and others will respect you. – Alice Walker
Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. – Alice Walker
Horses make a landscape look beautiful. – Alice Walker
I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it. – Alice Walker
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. – Alice Walker
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow. – Alice Walker
I grew up poor in racist rural Georgia during the Jim Crow era, but my mother always taught me to celebrate and be proud of my heritage. – Alice Walker
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. – Alice Walker
In search of my mother’s garden, I found my own. – Alice Walker
Animals share with us the privilege of having a soul. – Alice Walker
I have tried to offer no judgments concerning any population of people. I have tried to endow them with the same worth as any fellow human beings. – Alice Walker
We should learn to interpret life ourselves, and not let someone else dictate the meaning of our lives. – Alice Walker
We are not so different, you and I. We are both made of stars and stardust. – Alice Walker
Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. – Alice Walker
Activism is the rent I pay for living on this planet. – Alice Walker
The best way to solve any problem is to remove its cause. – Alice Walker
I think our job as human beings is to uplift, spirits to the best of our abilities. And if a poem can do that, then I have done my job. – Alice Walker
If art doesn’t make us better, then what on earth is it for? – Alice Walker
Horses make a landscape look beautiful. – Alice Walker
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. – Alice Walker
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