Alice Walker

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. ↗

— Alice Walker

#color #field #god #i #i think

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow. ↗

— Alice Walker

#demands #denies #friend #grow #person

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. ↗

— Alice Walker

#bad #good #writing #art

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. ↗

— Alice Walker

#black #created #exist #humans #made

What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears. ↗

— Alice Walker

#mind #understand #worships

Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate. ↗

— Alice Walker

#men

Even as I hold you, I am letting you go. ↗

— Alice Walker

#hold-you #leaving #let-go #letting-go #loss

Everything want to be loved. Us sing and dance and holler, just trying to be loved. ↗

— Alice Walker

#love

Horses make a landscape look beautiful. ↗

— Alice Walker

#horses #landscape #look #make

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

— Alice Walker

#because #believe #better #boring #fresh