Quotes About Alice Walker

I go to readings by fiction writers like Alice Walker, and I'm envious of the level of attention they generate.

I think even a hero is someone who has sort of the flaw or imperfection of character. I remember Alice Walker saying that once - she'd written a novel about a civil rights hero, and it was someone who had this flaw, this central flaw.

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.

I gave my archive to Emory University because there's a really dear friend who teaches there, Rudolph Byrd, and he's the editor.

Most damage that others do us is out of fear, humiliation and pain. Those feelings occur in all of us, not just in those of us who profess a certain religious or racial devotion.

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

His little whistle sound like it lost way down a jar, and the jar in the bottom of the creek. P. 64

Keep in mind always the present you are constructing. It should be the future you want.

I have the uncanny feeling that, just at the end of my life, I am beginning to reinhabit completely the body I long ago left.

Keep in mind always the present you are constructing. It should be the future you want. —Ola

But she more evil than my mama and that keep her alive.

there because of her brilliance but only tolerated because it was clear she was one, too, on whom true Ladyhood would never be conferred.

Shug say, What, too shamefaced to put singing and dancing and fucking together? She laugh. That's the reason they call what us sing the devil's music. Devils love to fuck.

When he broke that commitment to art, to making beauty, to recording, to bearing witness, to saying yessiree to the life spirit, whose only request sometimes is just that you acknowledge you truly see it, he broke something in Hal.

The white missionary before you would not let us have this ceremony, said Joseph. But the Olinka like it very much. We know a roofleaf is not Jesus Christ, but in its own humble way, is it not God?

Only dead people need loud music, you know. I call loud rock 'Dracula music' because you look out, and there are all those dead and deaf and soulless zombies clod-hopping across the floor.

We've never seen weather like the weather there is today. We've never seen violence like the violence we see today. We've never seen greed or evil like the greed and evil we see today. We've never seen tomatoes either, like the ones being created today. There is much from which to recoil.

I saw everything fresh, and with wonder that I was in America at all. If a white person was rude I simply turned and stared. I never acknowledged the system that sanctioned rude behavior, but always responded directly to the person. How uncivilly you have been brought up! was the message of my stare.

Alice Walker published her important essay ("In Search of Zora Neale Hurston") in Ms. magazine in 1975

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