Quotes by Alice Walker

“I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have”

“Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.”

“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they dont have any”

“What the mind doesnt understand, it worships or fears”

“Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.”

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

“Its so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think thats what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.”

“For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.”

“People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.”

“In search of my mothers garden, I found my own.”

“Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.”

“Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.”

“In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.”

“The thing that a lot of people cannot comprehend is that Mother Nature doesnt have a bullet with your name on it, she has millions of bullets inscribed with to whom it may concern”

“Men argue, nature acts”

“One generation plants the trees, and another gets the shade”

“Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.”

“Nature does nothing uselessly.”

“Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesnt matter. Im not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesnt make us better, then what on earth is it for.”

“The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.”