Quotes by Alice Walker

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

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.

I made my first white women friends in college; they loved me and were loyal to our friendship, but I understood, as they did, that they were white women and that whiteness mattered.

Creation is a sustained period of bliss, even though the subject can still be very sad. Because theres the triumph of coming through and understanding that you have, and that you did it the way only you could do it. You didnt do it the way somebody told you to do it.

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

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.

Part of our tradition as black women is that we are universalists. Black children, yellow children, red children, brown children, that is the black womans normal, day-to-day relationship. In my family alone, we are about four different colors.

Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.

For me, I used to be shy towards journalism because it wasnt poetry. And then I realized that the events that I covered in essays that became journalism were actually great because they inspired me, and they became my muse.

You know how big love is? Love is big. love can hold anger love can even hold hatred.

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

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.

“Youd be surprised how good writing matters when youre going after money.”

“Time moves slowly, but passes quickly.”

“Everything want to be loved. Us sing and dance and holler, just trying to be loved.”

“Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.”

“If she come, I be happy. If she dont, I be content. And then I figure this the lesson I was suppose tolearn.”