01c. 1944 ADFirst time I got the full sight of Shug Avery long black body with it black plum nipples, look like her mouth, I thought I had turned into a manAlice Walker / quote ↗
02c. 1944 ADShe got a long pointed nose and big fleshy mouth. Lips look like black plum. Eyes big, glossy. Feverish. And mean. Like, sick as she is, if a snake cross her path, she kill itAlice Walker / quote ↗
03c. 1944 ADIt didn't take long to realize I didn't hardly know nothing. And that if you ast yourself why you black or a man or a woman or a bush it don't mean nothing if you don't ast why you here, periodAlice Walker / quote ↗
04c. 1944 ADThe crushed teapot in the rubbish of the bulldozed house will sing in your ears forever.Alice Walker / quote ↗
05c. 1944 ADI think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. People think pleasing God is all God cares about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.Alice Walker / quote ↗
06c. 1944 ADThis friendship among women is something Samuel often talks about. Because the women share a husband but the husband does not share their friendships, it makes Samuel uneasy. It is confusing, I suppose. And it is Samuel's duty as a Christian minister to preach the bible's directive of one husband and one wife. Samuel is confused because ti him, since the women are friends and will do anything for one another - not always, but more often than anyone from America would expect - and since they giggle and gossip and nurse each other's children, then they must be happy with things as they are. (Walker 2000: 141)Alice Walker / quote ↗
07c. 1944 ADI am an expression of the divine, just like a peach is, just like a fish is.Alice Walker / quote ↗
08c. 1944 ADWe do it because we care. We care that Vincent Van Gogh mutilated his ear. We care that behind a pile of manure in the yard he destroyed his life. We care that Scott Joplin's music lives! We care because we know this: the life we save is our own.Alice Walker / quote ↗
09c. 1944 ADAll these faces look happy enough, say Shug. Big and beefy. Eyes clear and innocent, like they don't know them other crooks on the front page. But they the same folks, she say.Alice Walker / quote ↗
11c. 1944 ADI have learned not to worry about love but to honor its coming with all my heart.Alice Walker / quote ↗
14c. 1944 ADThe experience of God or in any case the possibility of experiencing God is innate.Alice Walker / quote ↗
15c. 1944 ADAs long as the Earth can make a spring every year I can. As long as the Earth can flower and produce nurturing fruit I can because I'm the Earth. I won't give up until the Earth gives up.Alice Walker / quote ↗
16c. 1944 ADIt is healthier in any case to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's "mature" critics often are.Alice Walker / quote ↗
17c. 1944 ADOur mothers and our grandmothers some of them: moving to music not yet written.Alice Walker / quote ↗
19c. 1944 ADYou are all talking a bit too much, said Armando, who had cautioned them from the beginning to stay out of popular culture and in their own interior worlds.When you are caught up in the world that you did not design as support for your life and the life of earth and people, it is like being caught in someone else's dream or nightmare. Many people exist in their lives in this way. I say exist because it is not really living. It is akin to being suspended in a dream one is having at night, a dream over which one has no control. You are going here and there, seeing this and that person; you do not know or care about them usually, they are just there, on your interior screen. Humankind will not survive if we continue in this way, most of us living lives in which our own life is not the center.Alice Walker / quote ↗
20c. 1944 ADIt is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put - without delay, and with tenderness - back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try.Alice Walker / quote ↗
21c. 1944 ADIf you want to have a life that is worth living, a life that expresses your deepest feelings and emotions and cares and dreams, you have to fight for it.Alice Walker / quote ↗
22c. 1944 ADWar contributes greatly to global warming, which shouldn't surprise us. All those bombs going off, all those rockets, all those planes and helicopters. All that fuel of various kinds being used. It pollutes the air and water of this very fragile and interconnected planet.Alice Walker / quote ↗
23c. 1944 ADI think 'The Color Purple' is so bursting with love, the need for connection, the showing of the need for connection around the globe.Alice Walker / quote ↗
24c. 1944 ADIn nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.Alice Walker / quote ↗
