Alice Walker

Quotes

1. But please remember, especially in these times of group-think and the right-on chorus, that no person is your friend (or kin) who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow and be perceived as fully blossomed as you were intended.

2. 

   Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to get attention we do, except walk?

3. 

   They calls me yellow like yellow be my name. They calls me yellow like yellow be my name. But if yellow is a name Why aint black the same. Well, if I say Hey black girl Lord, she try to ruin my game.

4. 

   I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ast. And that in wondering bout the big things and asting bout the big things, you learn about the little ones, almost by accident. But you never know nothing more about the big things than you start out with. The more I wonder, he say, the more I love.

5. 

   Niggers going to Africa, he said to his wife. Now I have seen everything.

6. 

   I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.

7. 

   We know a roofleaf is not Jesus Christ, but in its own humble way, is it not God?

8. 

   The world is changing, I said. It is no longer a world just for boys and men.

9. 

   I think Africans are very much like white people back home, in that they think they are the center of the universe and that everything that is done is done for them.

10. 

    I don’t know nothing, I think. And glad of it.

11. 

    The little I knew about my own self wouldn’t have filled a thimble!

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