People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.


Alice Walker

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I started writing as a child. But I didn't think of myself actually writing until I was in colle...
ALICE WALKER
He say, Celie, tell me the truth. You don't like me cause I'm a man?
I blow my nose. take off t...
ALICE WALKER
I’m mad about the waste that happens when people who love each other can’t even bring themselves...
ALICE WALKER
Even with all of the things that are so awful, if you walk into your yard and stay there looking at ...
ALICE WALKER
My mother had bought a sewing machine for me. When I went away to college, she gave me a sewing mach...
ALICE WALKER
Sucking up to the biggies won't get us anywhere.
ALICE WALKER
Many readers fail to realize this, but 'The Color Purple' is a theological text. It is about...
ALICE WALKER
When we have pleaded for understanding, our character has been distorted; when we have asked for sim...
ALICE WALKER
The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.
ALICE WALKER
She standing there looking me straight in the eye. She look tired and her jaws full of air.
I s...
ALICE WALKER
God is different to us now, after all these years in Africa. More spirit than ever before, and more ...
ALICE WALKER
His little whistle sound like it lost way down a jar, and the jar in the bottom of the creek. P. 64
ALICE WALKER
I believe God is everything, say Shug. Everything that is or ever was or ever will be. And when you ...
ALICE WALKER
Here's the thing, say Shug. The thing I believe. God is inside you and inside everybody else. You co...
ALICE WALKER
Like I said...fine with me.
ALICE WALKER
Who am I to tell her who to love? My job just to love her good and true myself. P. 237
ALICE WALKER
Every time I conjure up a rock, I throw it.
ALICE WALKER
The Olinka girls do not believe girls should be educated. When I asked a mother why she thought this...
ALICE WALKER
Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that tre...
ALICE WALKER
Here's the thing, say Shug. The thing I believe. God is inside you and inside everybody else. You co...
ALICE WALKER
The more I wonder, the more I love.
ALICE WALKER
Man corrupt everything, say Shug. He on your box of grits, in your head, and all over the radio. He ...
ALICE WALKER
Oh, Celie, unbelief is a terrible thing. And so is the hurt we cause others unknowingly.
ALICE WALKER
A grown child is a dangerous thing.
ALICE WALKER
All my life I had to fight. I had to fight my daddy. I had to fight my brothers. I had to fight my c...
ALICE WALKER
Here's the thing, say Shug. The thing I believe. God is inside you and inside everybody else. You co...
ALICE WALKER
Everything want to be loved. Us sing and dance and holler, just trying to be loved.
ALICE WALKER
And I thank God let me gain understanding enough to know love can't be halted just cause some people...
ALICE WALKER
A writer's heart, a poet's heart, an artist's heart, a musician's heart is always breaking. It is th...
ALICE WALKER
Well how you spect to make her mind? Wives is like children. You have to let 'em know who got the up...
ALICE WALKER
All my life I had to fight... But I never thought I'd have to fight in my own house... I loves Harpo...
ALICE WALKER
I had assumed that the Earth, the spirit of the Earth, noticed exceptions -- those who wantonly dama...
ALICE WALKER
The longer I am a writer--so long now that my writing finger is periodically numb--the better I unde...
ALICE WALKER
Mr. President how long must women wait to get their liberty? Let us have the rights we deserve.
ALICE PAUL
I think fashion can always date, but I think if a woman has elegance, she doesn't date.
ALICE TEMPERLEY
The decisions you make are a choice of values that reflect your life in every way.
ALICE WATERS
When the wind blows through a wood, its mass is cut and closed by every leaf, forming a train of jit...
ALICE OSWALD
After I dropped out of college at the age of 19, I became a mortgage broker, and when I went back to...
ALICE DREGER
After I dropped out of college at the age of 19, I became a mortgage broker, and when I went back to...
ALICE DREGER