Alice Walker Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.

  Alice Walker

  Self Esteem, Literature, Week

  Alice Walker (2013). “The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction”, p.161, Hachette UK

• 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

  Lonely, Freedom, Fear

  Alice Walker (2011). “In Search of Our Mother's Gardens”, p.143, Hachette UK

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

  Alice Walker

  Sister, Inspiring, Sibling

• I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.

  Alice Walker

  Heart, Trying, Literature

• The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'

  Alice Walker

  Peace, Children, Passion

• To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.

  Alice Walker

  Mother, People, Hatred

  Alice Walker (2013). “The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction”, p.132, Hachette UK

• Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.

  Alice Walker

  Tea, Picnics, Beverages

  Alice Walker (2003). “The third life of Grange Copeland: Meridian ; The color purple”

• People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.

  Alice Walker

  People, Wish, Literature

• Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.

  Alice Walker

  Home, Literature

• All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.

  Alice Walker

  Literature, World, Levels

• The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.

  Alice Walker

  Technology, Men, Peaceful

  Alice Walker (2013). “The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way”, p.289, New Press, The

• Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.

  Alice Walker

  Purple, Feminist, Lavender

  In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens epigraph (1983)

• 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

  Understanding, Add, Movement

  Alice Walker (2011). “In Search of Our Mother's Gardens”, p.267, Hachette UK

• Storytelling is how we survive, when there's no feed, the story feeds something, it feeds the spirit, the imagination. I can't imagine life without stories, stories from my parents, my culture. Stories from other people's parents, their culture. That's how we learn from each other, it's the best way. That's why literature is so important, it connects us heart to heart.

  Alice Walker

  Heart, People, Imagination

• 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

  Lonely, Loneliness, Taken

  Alice Walker (2013). “The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker”, p.70, The New Press

• 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

  Children, Writing, Criticism

• There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through any spiritual or moral or physical devastation.

  Alice Walker

  Spiritual, Believe, People

  Possessing the Secret of Joy epigraph (1992) See Ricciardi 1; AliceWalker 9

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