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Alice Walker Quotes

Total quotes: 10
“A writer’s heart, a poet’s heart, an artist’s heart, a musician’s heart is always breaking. It is through that broken window that we see the world…”
— Alice Walker, The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way
Tagged: Art, Literature, Music, Creativity, Writing, creating, expressing, frail heart, Inspirations, heart of a creative person
“I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. People think pleasing God is all God cares about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.”
— Alice Walker, The Color Purple
Tagged: Religion, God, Fool, Nature
“I try to teach my heart not to want things it can't have.”
— Alice Walker, The third life of Grange Copeland: Meridian ; The color purple
Tagged: Accepting Reality, self, self awareness, self control, Self Care, Control Emotions, controlling feelings, Life, Wants, desires, Inspirational
“Everything want to be loved. Us sing and dance and holler, just trying to be loved.”
— Alice Walker, The Color Purple
Tagged: Love, Being Loved
“I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.”
— Alice Walker, Revolutionary Petunias
Tagged: Love, Timeless Love Quotes, Romantic Literature
“But it ain't easy, trying to do without God even if you know he ain't there, trying to do without him is a strain.”
— Alice Walker, The Color Purple
Tagged: God, Religion, Suffering
“Aside from the fact that they say it's unhealthy, my fat ain't never been no trouble. Men have always loved me. My kids ain't never complained.”
— Alice Walker, Can't Keep A Good Woman Down
Tagged: heavy, Weight, Health
“The jail you planned for me is the one you're gonna rot in.”
— Alice Walker, The Color Purple
Tagged: Motivational, Powerful, Strong, Empowering, Truth
“Have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show. Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. And I think all the other folks did too. They come to church to share God, not find God.”
— Alice Walker, The Color Purple
Tagged: God, Church, Religion
“Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don’t even recognize that growth is happening. We may feel hostile or angry or weepy and hysterical, or we may feel depressed. It would never occur to us, unless we stumbled on a book or a person who explained to us, that we were in fact in the process of change, of actually becoming larger, spiritually, than we were before. Whenever we grow, we tend to feel it, as a young seed must feel the weight and inertia of the earth as it seeks to break out of its shell on its way to becoming a plant. Often the feeling is anything but pleasant. But what is most unpleasant is the not knowing what is happening. Those long periods when something inside ourselves seems to be waiting, holding its breath, unsure about what the next step should be, eventually become the periods we wait for, for it is in those periods that we realize that we are being prepared for the next phase of our life and that, in all probability, a new level of the personality is about to be revealed.”
— Alice Walker, Living By The Word
Tagged: Change, Growth, Personality, Growing Up, Self-improvement, Periods Of Growth, Pain, Moving On
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