Quotes from Alice Walker

You better not never tell nobody but god.

work to make the routine drinking of bottled water a distant nightmare. Water was not meant to be polluted, any more than human blood, which is mostly water, is meant to be contaminated. How dare we bring anyone into the world who must, anywhere on earth, run from rain?

More than anything else, God love admiration … wanting to share a good thing. I think it pisses God odd if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.

They calls me yellow like yellow be my name, They calls me yellow like yellow be my name, But if yellow is a name Why ain't black the same, Well, if I say Hey black girl Lord, she try to ruin my game.

I know what I'm thinking bout, I think. Nothing. And as much of it as I can.

think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.

I wish I could be traveling with her, but thank God she able to do it. Sometimes I feel mad at her. Feel like I could scratch her hair right off her head. But then I think, Shug got a right to live too. She got a right to look over the world in whatever company she choose. Just cause I love her don't take away none of her rights.

Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it's a good place that we're all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it.

I have a lot of faith in us. I have a lot of faith in humanity. It's based, though, on my own life; I've come too far to be a pessimist.

This life soon be over, I say. Heaven last all ways.

In our particular society, it is the narrowed and narrowing view of life that often wins.

My life is not to be somebody else's impact - you know what I mean?

Not everyone's life is what they make it. Some people's life is what other people make it.

I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.

For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life. The writing has been really a byproduct of that.

People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don't.

It's an awful feeling to write something that you feel is really important... and to feel that you're being published by people who really don't get it and/or don't really care.

I cannot claim to have had a hard time publishing.

I think 'The Color Purple' is so bursting with love, the need for connection, the showing of the need for connection around the globe.

Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.

I just feel that 'The Color Purple,' which was my 10th book, was a true gift from my ancestors.

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

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

I have never felt that the one thing that I am 'known for' is what I am.