Alice Walker Womanist Quotes & Sayings

Doubt is most often the source of our powerlessness. To doubt is to be faithless, to be without hope or belief. When we doubt, our self-talk sounds like this: 'I don't think I can. I don't think I will.' ... To doubt is to have faith in the worst possible outcome. It is to believe in the perverseness of the universe, that even if I do well, something I don't know about will get in the way, sabotage me, or get me in the end. — Blaine Lee Pardoe

America. Members of the generation that once embraced sex, drugs and rock-and-roll — Anonymous

Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender. — Alice Walker

(a womanist)
3. Loves music. Loves dance. Loves the moon. Loves the Spirit. Loves love and food and roundness. Loves struggle. Loves the Folk. Loves herself. Regardless. — Alice Walker

How we react to the tragedy of one small person accurately reflects our attitude towards a whole nationality, and increasing the numbers doesn't change much. — Anna Politkovskaya

Of the three official objects of our prison system: vengeance, deterrence, and reformation of the criminal, only one is achieved; and that is the one which is nakedly abominable. — George Bernard Shaw

There are many people of color who are very talented. — James D. Watson

I like revisiting, at certain times, spots where I was once happy; I like to shape the present in the image of the irretrievable past. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I guess after tonight Boots won't think the whole world is her friend, thought Gregor. She had to find out sometime, but it still made him sad. — Suzanne Collins

What did it mean for a black woman to be an artist in our grandmothers' time? In our great-grandmothers' day? It is an answer cruel enough to stop the blood. — Alice Walker