Poetry Quote by Alice Walker — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Anyhow, I say, the God I been praying and writing to is a man. And act just like all the other mens I know. Trifling, forgitful, and lowdown.”

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

“I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ask. And that in wondering bout the big things and asking bout the big things, you learn about the little ones, almost by accident. But you never know nothing more about the big things than you start out with. The more I wonder, the more I love.”

“Repelled by cruelty”

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

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

“It is time to float on the waters of the night.”

“No one but Night, with tears on her dark face, watches beside me in this windy place.”

“Say to them,”

“I am no longer knocking at death’s door but the path is still familiar.”

“At two o'clock in the morning, if you open your window and listen,”

“grief is a house”