black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.

Alice Walker

Just because I don’t harass it like some peoples us know don’t mean I ain’t got religion.
ALICE WALKER

Knows Mean Religion
Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
ALICE WALKER

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

Inspiring Mother Simple
People will say to you, “Oh, you are fearless.” That is so not true. We should stop saying that about people. It’s a slander, really.
ALICE WALKER

Fearless People Think
It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one’s children will become than for the children one’s ‘mature’ critics often are.
ALICE WALKER

Children Criticism Writing
My God is not a religious God. My God is nature, my God is everything there is. That’s God. Everything is God. I’m a child of that.
ALICE WALKER

Children Religious
Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
ALICE WALKER

Attraction Beauty Creating Law
The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.
ALICE WALKER

Day Earth Given Wise
My heart hurt so much I can’t believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?
ALICE WALKER

Believe Heart Hurt
How we come into this world, how we are ushered in, met, and hopefully embraced upon arrival, impacts the whole of our time on earth.
ALICE WALKER

Earth Impact Time World
It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.
ALICE WALKER

Dad Daughter Day Father
To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.
ALICE WALKER

Hatred Mother People
I’m pore, I’m black, I may be ugly and can’t cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I’m here.
ALICE WALKER

Black Listening Voice
How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.
ALICE WALKER

Gun Men Peace
… my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
ALICE WALKER

Flower House Mother
I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same, there’s a real lightheartednes s about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they’re not the same, ever again.
ALICE WALKER

Change Grief Real Thing

We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Alice Walker Quotes