Wisdom Quote by alice walker — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

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

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

“Repelled by cruelty”

“Man corrupt everything, say Shug. He on your box of grits, in your head, and all over the radio. He try to make you think he everywhere. Soon as you think he everywhere, you think he God. But he ain't. Whenever you trying to pray, and man plop himself on the other end of it, tell him to git lost, say Shug. Conjure up the flowers, wind, water, a big rock.”

“Here's the thing, say Shug. The thing I believe. God is inside you and inside everybody else. You come into the world with God. But only them that search for it inside find it. And sometimes it just manifest itself even if you not looking, or don't know what you looking for. Trouble do it for most folks, I think. Sorrow, lord. Feeling like shit.”

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

“So I learned then, that gold in it's native state is but dull, unornamental stuff, and that only low-born metals excite the admiration of the ignorant with an ostentatious glitter. However, like the rest of the world, I still go underrating men of gold and glorifying men of mica. Commonplace human nature cannot rise above that.”

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”

“Speak not, O Wind! for silence is the tongue of stars.”

“Who was to know what went on in a person's heart? A wise woman kept her own counsel.”

“The man who has no imagination has no wings.”

“The image isn't reality. Even though we're used to thinking that way alot of the time. We show a kid a picture of a dog and say 'This is a doggie' - but it's not. It's just an image.”