Alice Walker Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries.
-
Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.
-
Man is essentially a selfish creature. The differences in the degree with which this developed are infinite.
-
When I began I thought that literature was contained within a bubble that somehow floated above the world commented upon by newspapers. But I became more and more interested in trying to include some of that world within my work.
-
Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?
-
Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.
-
One can become enthusiastic over anything. For a time I was delighted with bomb throwing. It gave me a tremendous pleasure to bomb those fellows from above.
-
Yeats, protected to some extent by the Nationalistic movement, wrote out of a somewhat protected world, and so his work does not touch life deeply.
-
Republicans have never been good at public relations.
-
I had throat surgery. We had to check that out and make sure it wasn't cancerous. I had a polyp on my vocal cord, so I had that taken out.
-
Here's the thing that people don't understand: I don't really care. I've never been a careerist. It's not a strategy. I react to certain characters and story lines and specific mode of filmmaking.
-
When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
-
Most of our songs are about relationships.
-
Audiences want and need a shared viewing experience.
-
If you can be anything else but a writer, be it.
-
Legree had had the slumbering moral elements in him roused by his encounters with Tom, - roused, only to be resisted by the determinate force of evil; but still there was a thrill and commotion of the dark, inner world, produced by every word, or prayer, or hymn, that reacted in superstitious dread.
-
The knowledge of God, the formation of ideas, the mastery of desire and passion, the distinction between that which is to be chosen and that which is to be rejected, all these man owes to his form...
-
Theorists have wonderful ideas which take years and years to be verified.
-
California is the only state in the union where you can fall asleep under a rose bush in full bloom and freeze to death.
-
In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the person and the state. It's become a fact of life that governments have become very intimate with people, most always to their detriment.
-
I didn't want to be regular. I didn't want to be this type of player, how everybody else play. I always try to learn and just be better so I could be different, y'know, instead of being content like a lot of people I've seen were.
-
You can't please everybody all the time, but you can please a majority.
-
Activism is the rent I pay for living on the planet.
