Alice Walker Life Quotations

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.

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

On a spiritual level, it's as though with my sighted eye I see what's before me, and with my unsighted eye I see what's hidden. It's illuminated life more than darkened it.

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.

Even with all of the things that are so awful, if you walk into your yard and stay there looking at almost anything for five minutes, you will be stunned by how marvelous life is and how incredibly lucky we are to have it.

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.

I live a very secluded life, a very contemplative life and a very meditative one. That is my ideal life.

My life is not to be somebody else's impact - you know what I mean?

we are the ones we have been waiting for

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.

The only way to solace anyone who loved you in life is to be a good memory

The more I wonder, the more I love.

I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ask. And that in wondering bout the big things and asking 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, the more I love.

HELPED are those who love the entire cosmos rather than their own tiny country, city, or farm, for to them will be shown the unbroken web of life and the meaning of infinity.

Not everyone's life is what they make it. Some people's life is what other people make it.