Alice Walker Quotes

I don’t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends I can be certain of.

It’s a tragedy, in a way, that Americans are brought up to think that they cannot feel for other people and other beings just because they are different. They think they’re different. It’s very limiting.

Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.

My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.

A good model of how to ‘work with the enemy’ internally is presented by the Dalai Lama, in his endless caretaking of his soul as he confronts the Chinese government that invaded Tibet.

Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.

You don’t always have to be doing something. You can just be, and that’s plenty.

People who work hard often work too hard. … May we learn to honor the hammock, the siesta, the nap and the pause in all its forms.

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

I just think cities are unnatural, basically. I know there are people who live happily in them, and I have cities that I love, too. But it’s a disaster that we have moved so far from nature.

The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.

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

Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.

Well, capitalism is a big problem, because with capitalism you’re just going to keep buying and selling things until there’s nothing else to buy and sell, which means gobbling up the planet.