Alice Walker quotes

" No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow. " # Friends and Friendship # Freedom # Power

" I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart. " # Love # Worry # Learning

" Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise. " # Expectation # Leaders and Leadership # Wealth

" Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week. " # Murder

" I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it. " # Quotations # God # Color

" Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it. " # Detail # Death and Dying # Belief

" I try to teach my heart not to want things it can't have. " # Teachers and Teaching # Love # Heart

" Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself. " # Happiness # Love # Friends and Friendship

" Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception. " # Present # Winners and Winning # Love

" How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names. " # Mothers