Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker has been inspiring readers with her stories, her passion, and her honesty for more than four decades. Below are some of our favorite inspirational Alice Walker quotes, from both her writings and interviews.
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“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.”
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“Part of what existence means to me is knowing the difference between what I am now and what I was then.”
—from In Search of Our Mother’s Gardens
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“Keep in mind always the present you are constructing. It should be the future you want.”
—from The Temple of My Familiar
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“Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.”
—from Revolutionary Petunias
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“Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.”
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“I believe in movements, collective action to influence the future.”
—from You Can’t Keep a Good Woman Down
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“Why any woman give a shit what people think is a mystery to me.”
—from The Color Purple
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“War will stop when we no longer praise it, or give it any attention at all.”
—from Living by the Word
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“There are ways that the spirit can be mended just as there are ways that the spirit can be broken.”
—from In Love and Trouble
“If you lie to yourself about your own pain, you will be killed by those who will claim you enjoyed it.”
—from Possessing the Secret of Joy
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Photo: Courtesy of Alice Walker
