Women's quotes: Alice Walker

"No person is your friend who demands your silence and denies your right to grow."

–– Alice Walker (b. 1944), American writer and activist 

Women's quotes: Alice Walker

"Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul."

–– Alice Walker (b. 1944), American writer and activist 

Quotes: Alice Walker

"Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming."

–– Alice Walker (b. 1944), American writer and activist 

Black History quotes: Alice Walker

"Some periods of growth are so confusing that we don't even recognize that growth is happening. We may feel hostile or angry or weepy and hysterical, or we may feel depressed. It would never occur to us, unless we stumbled on a book or a person who explained to us, that we were in fact in the process of change, of actually becoming larger, spiritually, than we were before. Whenever we grow, we tend to feel it, as a young seed must feel the weight and inertia of the earth as it seeks to break out of its shell on its way to becoming a plant. Often the feeling is anything but pleasant. But what is most unpleasant is the not knowing what is happening. Those long periods when something inside ourselves seems to be waiting, holding its breath, unsure about what the next step should be, eventually become the periods we wait for, for it is in those periods that we realize that we are being prepared for the next phase of out life and that, in all probability, a new level of the personality is about to be revealed."

–– Alice Walker (b. 1944), American writer and activist 

From Living by the Word

Quotes 368: Alice Walker

"Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise." 

–– Alice Walker (b. 1944), American writer and activist 

via Sketchbook 11, 2010, p. 16 

Quotes: Alice Walker

"Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don’t even recognize that growth is happening. We may feel hostile or angry or weepy and hysterical, or we may feel depressed. It would never occur to us, unless we stumbled on a book or a person who explained to us, that we were in fact in the process of change, of actually becoming larger, spiritually, than we were before. Whenever we grow, we tend to feel it, as a young seed must feel the weight and inertia of the earth as it seeks to break out of its shell on its way to becoming a plant. Often the feeling is anything but pleasant. But what is most unpleasant is the not knowing what is happening. Those long periods when something inside ourselves seems to be waiting, holding its breath, unsure about what the next step should be, eventually become the periods we wait for, for it is in those periods that we realize that we are being prepared for the next phase of our life and that, in all probability, a new level of the personality is about to be revealed."

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Alice Walker (b. 1944), American author and activist, Living by the Word: Essays, 1988

* Source: Art Propelled January 6, 2016