858 Quotes by Alice Walker

People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.

There was a saying among the Mundo: It takes only one lie to unravel the world.

All my life I had to fight... But I never thought I’d have to fight in my own house... I loves Harpo, she say. God knows I do. But I’ll kill him dead before I let him beat me.

Life is very different when you have a good friend. I’ve seen people without special friends, close friends. Other men, especially. For some reason men don’t often make and keep friends. This is a real tragedy, I think, because in a way, without a tight male friend, you never really are able to see yourself.

You can love yourself spiritually, physically – in almost any way that anybody else can.

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it. People think pleasing God is all God cares about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.

If art doesn’t make us better, then what on earth is it for.

Without money of one’s own in a capitalist society, there is no such thing as independence.

I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same, there’s a real lightheartednes s about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they’re not the same, ever again.