Alice Walker

"Even as I hold you, I am letting you go."

- Alice Walker

"I have learned not to worry about love, but to honor its coming with all my heart."

- Alice Walker

"I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart."

- Alice Walker

"The more I wonder, the more I love."

- Alice Walker

"The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men."

- Alice Walker

"Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender."

- Alice Walker

"I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it."

- Alice Walker

"Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister?"

- Alice Walker

"Is solace anywhere more comforting than in the arms of a sister?"

- Alice Walker

"War will stop when we no longer praise it, or give it any attention at all. Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited."

- Alice Walker

"The greatness of animals is that they are just themselves."

- Alice Walker

"Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any Happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself."

- Alice Walker

"No person is your friend who demands your silence or denies your right to grow."

- Alice Walker

"Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister."

- Alice Walker

"Horses make a landscape look beautiful."

- Alice Walker

"I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere and it can do anything."

- Alice Walker

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

- Alice Walker

"No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow."

- Alice Walker

"As long as the Earth can make a spring every year, I can. As long as the Earth can flower and produce nurturing fruit, I can, because I’m the same thing."

- Alice Walker

"I think 'The Color Purple' is so bursting with love, the need for connection, the showing of the need for connection around the globe."

- Alice Walker

"What do you suppose will satisfy the Soul, except to walk free, and own no superior?"

- Alice Walker

"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any."

- Alice Walker

"Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself."

- Alice Walker

"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any."

- Alice Walker

"“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.”"

- Alice Walker

""The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.""

- Alice Walker

"The most common way people give up power is by thinking they don’t have any."

- Alice Walker

"Time moves slowly, but passes quickly."

- Alice Walker

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

- Alice Walker

"'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say."

- Alice Walker

"'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding."

- Alice Walker

"Activism is my rent for living on the planet."

- Alice Walker

"Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future."

- Alice Walker

"Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself."

- Alice Walker

"This is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money and power and no empathy."

- Alice Walker

"In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect."

- Alice Walker

"Many readers fail to realize this, but 'The Color Purple' is a theological text. It is about the reclamation of one's original God: the earth and nature."

- Alice Walker

"The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than Black people were made for whites or women for men."

- Alice Walker