858 Quotes by Alice Walker

At menopause, a time of extremely high power and shapeshifting, we are told to behave as though nothing is happening. To continue the “game” of life as if we are still girls. We are not girls. And to continue to act as though we are robs the world and the coming generations of our insights.

There’s an ecstatic side to writing. It’s like jazz. It just has a life.

I think Africans are very much like white people back home, in that they think they are the center of the universe and that everything that is done is done for them.

My heart hurt so much I can’t believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?

The infinite faith I have in people’s ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.

I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America’s really large shadow and that’s not all that bad.

I do not grieve in the abstract, but in the heart.

In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you’ve become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that’s the height of intelligence.

The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn’t want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass.