Alice Walker Quotes - Page 9

Quotes about:

• before I embark on any new venture, I ask myself: will the joy of doing this make me lose track of any concern for time? If the answer is yes, I proceed!

  Alice Walker

  Passion, New Ventures, Track

  Alice Walker (2013). “The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way”, p.145, New Press, The

  6 Copy quote

• Now there are heavy houses everywhere and more of them are being built. In fact, it is only when more houses are being constructed that some countries consider their economics healthy. Yet each house is a heavy footprint on the Earth. Just as all our possessions represent-if we cannot learn ways of sharing them-a weight and clutter that often means the faces of future generations will look up into darkness and the pressure on the Earth of "things."

  Alice Walker

  Country, Mean, House

  8 Copy quote

• Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.

  Alice Walker

  Confused, Party, Government

  10 Copy quote

• I'm one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.

  Alice Walker

  Believe, I Believe

  Source: alicewalkersgarden.com

  10 Copy quote

• Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also.

  Alice Walker

  Wise, Witty, Teacher

  Alice Walker (2013). “The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way”, p.74, New Press, The

  9 Copy quote

• Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.

  Alice Walker

  Peace, Ubuntu, Alive

  Alice Walker (2013). “The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker”, p.100, The New Press

  9 Copy quote

• I always have felt that elders are really important. I think it's because, in my little Southern black culture, elders really were respected. Everybody listened to them. They may not have agreed - that's a whole different story - but they would totally listen and consider what the elder had to say.

  Alice Walker

  Thinking, Southern, Black

  Source: alicewalkersgarden.com

  10 Copy quote

• I personally have never trusted museums. ... It is because museums, broadly speaking, live off of the art and artifacts of others, often art and artifacts that have been obtained by dubious means. But they also manipulate whatever it is they present to the public; hence, until Judy Chicago, in the 1970s ... few women artists were hung in any major museum. Indian artists? Artifacts only, please. Black artists? Something musical, maybe? And so forth.

  Alice Walker

  Art, Mean, Museums

  9 Copy quote

• He beat me like he beat the children. Cept he don't never hardly beat them. He say, Celie, git the belt. The children be outside the room peeking through the cracks. It all I can do not to cry. I make myself wood. I say to myself, Celie, you a tree. That's how come I know trees fear man.

  Alice Walker

  Children, Men, Tree

  53 Copy quote

• Guided by my heritage of a love of beauty and a respect for strength - in search of my mother's garden, I found my own.

  Alice Walker

  Mother, Garden, Heritage

  Alice Walker, Barbara Christian (1994). “Everyday Use”, p.114, Rutgers University Press

  11 Copy quote

• I just really love people a lot. I really love them.

  Alice Walker

  People

  Source: alicewalkersgarden.com

  7 Copy quote

• HELPED are those who love the entire cosmos rather than their own tiny country, city, or farm, for to them will be shown the unbroken web of life and the meaning of infinity.

  Alice Walker

  Country, Cities, Web Of Life

  Alice Walker (1990). “The Temple of My Familiar”

  7 Copy quote

• I have fought and kicked and fasted and prayed and cursed and cried myself to the point of existing.

  Alice Walker

  Cried, Cursed

  Alice Walker (2013). “The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction”, p.56, Hachette UK

  11 Copy quote

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

  Alice Walker

  Love, Heart, Happy Valentines Day

  Alice Walker (2013). “The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way”, p.65, New Press, The

  21 Copy quote

• HELPED are those who live in quietness, knowing neither brand name nor fad; they shall live every day as if in eternity, and each moment shall be as full as it is long.

  Alice Walker

  Fashion, Names, Knowing

  Alice Walker (1990). “The Temple of My Familiar”

  7 Copy quote

• To me war is something to be outgrown, recognized as immature, wasteful, and so destructive to life that human beings should shun it ... as they once shunned bubonic plague.

  Alice Walker

  War, Immature, Should

  Alice Walker (2013). “The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way”, p.36, New Press, The

  10 Copy quote

• I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same, there's a real lightheartednes s about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they're not the same, ever again.

  Alice Walker

  Real, Grief, Things Change

  8 Copy quote

• You got to fight them, Celie, she say. I can't do it for you. You got to fight them for yourself. I don't say nothing. I think bout Nettie, dead. She fight, she run away. What good it do? I don't fight, I stay where I'm told. But I'm alive.

  Alice Walker

  Running, Fighting, Thinking

  Alice Walker (1982). “El color púrpura”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

  8 Copy quote

• I just like to have words that describe things correctly. Now to me, 'black feminist' does not do that. I need a word that is organic, that really comes out of the culture, that really expresses the spirit that we see in black women. And it's just... womanish.

  Alice Walker

  Feminist, Black, Doe

  6 Copy quote

• At one point I learned transcendental meditation. This was 30-something years ago. It took me back to the way that I naturally was as a child growing up way in the country, rarely seeing people. I was in that state of oneness with creation and it was as if I didn't exist except as a part of everything.

  Alice Walker

  Country, Children, Growing Up

  17 Copy quote

• I feel very happy to be living in Berkeley because there are a lot of people who are politically active here.

  Alice Walker

  People, Very Happy, Feels

  "A long walk to freedom" by Duncan Campbell, www.theguardian.com. February 24, 2001.

  10 Copy quote

• HELPED are those who love all the colors of all the human beings, as they love all the colors of the animals and plants; none of their children, nor any of their ancestors, nor any parts of themselves, shall be hidden from them.

  Alice Walker

  Children, Animal, Color

  Alice Walker (1990). “The Temple of My Familiar”

  8 Copy quote

• I love the natural world - it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.

  Alice Walker

  People, World, Culture

  "Redemption songs" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. January 14, 2005.

  9 Copy quote

• You can't send me anywhere that I wouldn't be happy to go. You'd be surprised as to how that lightens the heart.

  Alice Walker

  Heart

  Source: alicewalkersgarden.com

  8 Copy quote

• War contributes greatly to global warming, which shouldn't surprise us. All those bombs going off, all those rockets, all those planes and helicopters. All that fuel of various kinds being used. It pollutes the air and water of this very fragile and interconnected planet.

  Alice Walker

  War, Air, Water

  9 Copy quote

Page 9 of 17

First

← Prev

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin