Alice Walker Quotes & Sayings

“'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.”

“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.”

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

“Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.”

“If you want to have a life that is worth living, a life that expresses your deepest feelings and emotions and cares and dreams, you have to fight for it.”

“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”

“I think 'The Color Purple' is so bursting with love, the need for connection, the showing of the need for connection around the globe.”

“I grew up in the South under segregation. So, I know what terrorism feels like - when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn't look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. I mean, that's terrorism, too.”

“Propaganda is amazing. People can be led to believe anything.”

“Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it's a good place that we're all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it.”