Alice Walker Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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

“Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.”

“Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom.”

“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.”

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

“In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.”

“Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.”

“All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.”

“It is because I recognize the brutality with which my own multi-branched ancestors have been treated that I can identify the despicable, lawless, cruel, and sadistic behavior that has characterized Israel's attempts to erase a people, the Palestinians, from their own land.”

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