858 Quotes by Alice Walker

To acknowledge our ancestors means we are aware that we did not make ourselves... We remember them because it is an easy thing to forget: that we are not the first to suffer, rebel, fight, love, and die.

If she come, I be happy. If she don’t, I be content.

I don’t know who tried to teach him what to do in the bedroom, but it must have been a furniture salesman.

Let ’im hear me, I say. If he ever listened to poor colored women the world would be a different place, I can tell you.

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.

The grace with which we embrace life, in spite of the pain, the sorrows, is always a measure of what has gone before.

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

In that story I gathered up the historical and psychological threads of the life my ancestors lived, and in the writing of it I felt joy and strength and my own continuity. I had that wonderful feeling writers get sometimes, not very often, of being with a great many people, ancient spirits, all very happy to see me consulting and acknowledging them, and eager to let me know, through the joy of their presence, that, indeed, I am not alone.

I’m for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.