Alice Walker Famous Quotes
"Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk"
"Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it."
"The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying'"
"Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for."
The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.
"No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow."
"Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception."
Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
"In order to be able to live in America I must be unafraid to live anywhere in it, and I must be able to live in the fashion and with whom I choose."
The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen.
I have learned not to worry about love but to honor its coming with all my heart.
"Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week."
"How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers' names."
Alice Walker Quotations
"It's so glamorous, you have to see it. (describing the 92 million Rock and Roll Hall of Fame)"
Aretha Franklin
"If you can't find the key to success, pick the lock."
Unknown
The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.
Anthony Burgess
"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.
Oprah Winfrey
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
Anatole France
"Frankly, I think the chances of having a happy childhood while you're still a kid going through it are pretty slim."
Edith Ann
Under conditions of tyranny it is far easer to act than to think.
Hannah Arendt
The average Ph.D. thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
J Frank Dobie