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Danh ngôn của Alice Walker (Sứ mệnh: 1)

Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.
Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.
I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.
In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.
Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.
For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.
The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.
The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.
How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.
Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.
To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.
'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.
I'm for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.
I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire and enjoy it; that's my religion.
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 think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.
Creation is a sustained period of bliss, even though the subject can still be very sad. Because there's the triumph of coming through and understanding that you have, and that you did it the way only you could do it. You didn't do it the way somebody told you to do it.
In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you've become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that's the height of intelligence.
Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
Fear is real, but so is love.
Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams.
A people do not throw their geniuses away. And if they are thrown away, it is our duty as artists and as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children and, if necessary, bone by bone.
As long as the people don't fear the truth, there is hope. For once they fear it, the one who tells it doesn't stand a chance. And today, truth is still beautiful... but so frightening.
Part of our tradition as black women is that we are universalists. Black children, yellow children, red children, brown children, that is the black woman's normal, day-to-day relationship. In my family alone, we are about four different colors.
I understood at a very early age that in nature, I felt everything I should feel in church but never did. Walking in the woods, I felt in touch with the universe and with the spirit of the universe.
You know how big love is? Love is big. love can hold anger; love can even hold hatred.
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.
One of the triumphs of the Civil Rights Movement is that when you travel through the South today, you do not feel overwhelmed by a residue of grievance and hate.
Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it's a good place that we're all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it.
I have such respect for 'Democracy Now!'
I made my first white women friends in college; they loved me and were loyal to our friendship, but I understood, as they did, that they were white women and that whiteness mattered.
Propaganda is amazing. People can be led to believe anything.
If you want to have a life that is worth living, a life that expresses your deepest feelings and emotions and cares and dreams, you have to fight for it.