Quotes about Power
Writing itself was a magical act in which imagination altered reality and gave form to power. To this end, the book was the most powerful element of all.
— Alice Hoffman
If a woman doesn't write her own history, there are very few who will.
— Alice Hoffman
A woman alone who could read and write was suspect. Words were magic. Books were not to be trusted. What men could not understand, they wished to burn.
— Alice Hoffman
Those in power must spend a lot of their time laughing at us.
— Alice Walker
Why should the killers of the world be the future and not us?
— Alice Walker
He strong in body but weak in will.
— Alice Walker
She weak as a kitten. But her mouth just pack with claws.
— Alice Walker
That politicians who smiled at us and kissed our babies blue eyes shining with triumph well knew we were falling into our graves kicked by them as they counted our votes.
— Alice Walker
So he bought her a car, only he refuse to show her how to drive it.
— Alice Walker
Wives is like children. You have to let 'em know who got the upper hand. Nothing can do that better than a good sound beating.
— Alice Walker
Well how you spect to make her mind? Wives is like children. You have to let 'em know who got the upper hand. Nothing can do better than a good sound beating. (Walker 2000: 34)
— Alice Walker
it is the sense that something that was alive for a very long time is still alive. Not yet beaten into submission or oblivion by those who kill everything they touch with money.
— Alice Walker