Quotes from Alice Walker

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

The Nature of This Flower is to bloom.

Horses make a landscape look beautiful.

We should not look down on our first ancestors.

What's really hard is that you could care a lot for someone and not want to live with him anymore.

Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.

Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams.

Some writers sit down without a thought of what they are going to say, and they go through draft after draft.

It's very hard for our parents who see us enter a world that they can't imagine.

There are thousands of Palestinians in prison virtually for no reason.

The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.

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

HELPED are those who are shown the existence of the Creator's magic in the Universe; they shall experience delight and astonishment without ceasing.

My parents taught me service - not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.

As long as the people don't fear the truth, there is hope. For once they fear it, the one who tells it doesn't stand a chance. And today, truth is still beautiful... but so frightening.

As we talked of freedom and justice one day for all, we sat down to steaks. I am eating misery, I thought, as I took the first bite. And spit it out.

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.

allowing freedom to others brings freedom to ourselves.

Is solace anywhere more comforting than in the arms of sisters?

In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.

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

HELPED are those who lose their fear of death; theirs is the power to envision the future in a blade of grass.

We are a people. A people do not throw their geniuses away. If they do, it is our duty as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children. If necessary, bone by bone.

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