858 Quotes by Alice Walker

People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don’t.

Religion is an elaborate excuse for what man has done to women and to the earth.

Love likes to extend itself. If you receive it in a book – or however you get it – then your duty is to extend it beyond.

I am not lesbian, I am not bisexual, I am not straight. I am just curious.

Man corrupt everything, say Shug. He on your box of grits, in your head, and all over the radio. He try to make you think he everywhere. Soon as you think he everywhere, you think he God. But he ain’t. Whenever you trying to pray, and man plop himself on the other end of it, tell him to git lost, say Shug. Conjure up the flowers, wind, water, a big rock.

I don’t know if you actually get something out of writing poetry. I think poetry is an autonomous muse that decides to come and sit on your couch.

In search of my mother’s garden, I found my own.

Animals can communicate quite well. And they do. And generally speaking, they are ignored.

We all have to start somewhere if us want to do better, an d out of self is what us have to hand.