I believe that the truth about any subject only comes when all sides of the story are put together, and all their different meanings make one new one.
Alice Walker (b. 1944) American writer, activist
“Beyond the Peacock: The Reconstruction of Flannery O’Connor,” In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens (1983)
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The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.
Alice Walker (b. 1944) American writer, activist
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No person is you friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
Alice Walker (b. 1944) American writer, activist
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I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.
Alice Walker (b. 1944) American writer, activist
The Color Purple (1982)
You know a little drink now and then never hurt nobody, but when you can’t git started without asking the bottle, you in trouble.
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.
Alice Walker (b. 1944) American writer, activist
Foreword to Marjorie Spiegel, The Dreaded Comparison: Human and Animal Slavery (1988; rev. ed. 1997)