858 Quotes by Alice Walker

How peculiar it feelsto speak abouthealth care in Americataking care of people’shealthwhile our governmentbombsthe limbsoff childrenin faraway lands.And starves and imprisonsnot a few of themat home. How oddthat it seemsnot obviously knownthat true health caremust mean, at minimum,deliberate non-harmingof anyone?

And I don't believe you dead. How can you be dead if I still feel you? Maybe, like God, you changed into something different that I'll have to speak to in a different way, but you not dead to me Nettie. And never will you be.

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book. If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.

My friend says to me:But what can we do? Already giving up.To be aware is already something,I say. Consciousness rarelyleaves us unmoved. Or unmoving.And so it is with this revelationof what has been happeningto our children, all of them,and especially to our boys.The beast in so-calledcivilized manis more lethal, sinister,grotesque and cunningthan I would have believed:And what is it, anyhow, this beast?How does it manifestin every age to plague our republicfrom shadowsit projectsas light?

Everything want to be loved. Us sing and dance and holler, just trying to be loved.

I think humanity has forgotten – this planet is for joy.

If she come, I be happy. If she don't, I be content. And then I figure this the lesson I was suppose tolearn.

it is the sensethat something that was alivefor a very long timeis still alive. Not yet beaten intosubmissionor oblivionby those who kill everythingthey touchwith money.

Folks crying and fanning and trying to keep a stray eye on the children, but they don't stare at Sofia and her sisters. They act like this the way it always done. I love folks.