Alice Walker Quotes About Mothers

Quotes about: Mothers

• Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.

  Alice Walker

  Mom, Mother, Flawed

  Alice Walker (1997). “Possessing the Secret of Joy”, p.272, Simon and Schuster

• To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.

  Alice Walker

  Mother, People, Hatred

  Alice Walker (2013). “The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction”, p.132, Hachette UK

• The forest is the first cathedral. I felt that from the time I was a child. I credit my mother with that. I used to think it came from her Native-American side. Whichever it was, she instinctively connected with nature, and taught me that.

  Alice Walker

  Mother, Children, Native American

  "Alice in Walkerland!". Interview with Kam Williams, www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com.

• How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.

  Alice Walker

  Inspiring, Mother, Simple

• In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.

  Alice Walker

  Mother, Parenting, Garden

  "In Search of Our Mother's Gardens" (1974)

• Guided by my heritage of a love of beauty and a respect for strength - in search of my mother's garden, I found my own.

  Alice Walker

  Mother, Garden, Heritage

  Alice Walker, Barbara Christian (1994). “Everyday Use”, p.114, Rutgers University Press

• And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.

  Alice Walker

  Family, Mother, Flower

  Alice Walker, Barbara Christian (1994). “Everyday Use”, p.47, Rutgers University Press

• My mother had handed down respect for the possibilities...and the will to grasp them.

  Alice Walker

  Daughter, Mother, Mother And Daughter

  Alice Walker, Barbara Christian (1994). “Everyday Use”, p.48, Rutgers University Press

• I think that indigenous women's wisdom is crucial. So much of the care of the Earth has come from the mothers. I think it's imperative we turn to their wisdom in how to take care of the planet.

  Alice Walker

  Mother, Thinking, Earth

  Source: inamerica.blogs.cnn.com

• The Olinka girls do not believe girls should be educated. When I asked a mother why she thought this, she said: A girl is nothing to herself; only to her husband can she become something. What can she become? I asked. Why, she said, the mother of his children. But I am not the mother of anybody's children, I said, and I am something.

  Alice Walker

  Girl, Mother, Children

  Alice Walker (1982). “El color púrpura”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

• Our mothers and grandmothers ... moving to music not yet written.

  Alice Walker

  Mother, Moving, Grandma

• No song or poem will bear my mother's name. Yet so many of the stories that I write, that we all write, are my mother's stories.

  Alice Walker

  Mother, Song, Writing

  Alice Walker, Barbara Christian (1994). “Everyday Use”, p.47, Rutgers University Press

• My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father's head. It taught me about women defending themselves and not collapsing in a heap.

  Alice Walker

  Mother, Strong, Father

  "Redemption songs" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. January 14, 2005.

• My writing is very organic. It's what I am. My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig. So I think of it as something that's very essential to my being.

  Alice Walker

  Mother, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.timeout.com

• I feel I am a child that's lost its mother. I feel like a calf whose mother has gone off to slaughter.

  Alice Walker

  Mother, Children, Gone

  Source: alicewalkersgarden.com

• The forest is the first cathedral. I felt that from the time I was a child. I credit my mother with that. I used to think it came from her Native-American side. Whichever it was, she instinctively connected with nature, and taught me that. Church just could not hold my spirit.

  Alice Walker

  Mother, Children, Thinking

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

• ... my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.

  Alice Walker

  Mother, Flower, House

  Alice Walker, Barbara Christian (1994). “Everyday Use”, p.47, Rutgers University Press

• I think mothers and daughters are meant to give birth to each other, over and over; that is why our challenges to each other are so fierce; that is why, when love and trust have not been too badly blemished or destroyed, the teaching and learning one from the other is so indelible and bittersweet. We daughters must risk losing the only love we instinctively feel we can't live without in order to be who we are, and I am convinced this sends a message to our mothers to break their own chains, though they may be anchored in prehistory and attached to their own great grandmothers' hearts.

  Alice Walker

  Daughter, Mother, Teaching

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