Alice Walker
10 quotes
“I don’t know nothing, I think. And glad of it.”
“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.”
“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?”
“The Cushion in the Road”
“, and this Obama has shown he can do.”
“Activism is the rent I pay for living on the planet. From the film poster for Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth .”
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any. As quoted in The Best Liberal Quotes Ever : Why the Left is Right (2004) by William P. Martin, p. 173.”
“A long walk to freedom”
“He has told me he likes men as well as he likes women, which seems only natural, he says, since he is the offspring of two sexes as well as two races. No one is surprised he is biracial; why should they be surprised he is bisexual? This is an explanation I have never heard and cannot entirely grasp; it seems too logical for my brain. Possessing the Secret of Joy (1992).”
“The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites or women for men. Foreword to The Dreaded Comparison: Animal Slavery and Human Slavery (1996) by Marjorie Spiegel, p. 14 .”