858 Quotes by Alice Walker

What the mind doesn’t understand, it worships or fears.

Writing permits me to be more than I am. Writing permits me to experience life as any number of strange creations.

When I offered the word “Womanism” many years ago, it was to give us a tool to use, as feminist women of color, in times like these. These are the moments we can see clearly, and must honor devotedly, our singular path as women of color in the United States. We are not white women and this truth has been ground into us for centuries, often in brutal ways.

It’s worse than unwelcome, said Samuel. The Africans don’t even see us. They don’t even recognize us as the brothers and sisters they sold.

And when they spy on us let them discover us loving.

I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ask. And that in wondering bout the big things and asking bout the big things, you learn about the little ones, almost by accident. But you never know nothing more about the big things than you start out with. The more I wonder, he say, the more I love. And people start to love you back, I bet, I say.

Two old fools left over from love.

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

The most important question in the world is, ‘Why is the child crying?’