Quotes about Independence
I wish I could be traveling with her, but thank God she able to do it. Sometimes I feel mad at her. Feel like I could scratch her hair right off her head. But then I think, Shug got a right to live too. She got a right to look over the world in whatever company she choose. Just cause I love her don't take away none of her rights.
— Alice Walker
A little love, a little buckshot, that's how I'd say handle yourself.
— Alice Walker
She thinks her sister has held life always in the palm of one hand, that no is a word the world never learned to say to her.
— Alice Walker
You know Shug will fight, he say. Just like Sofia. She bound to live her life and be herself no matter what.
— Alice Walker
Do not be like cows grazing watching the butcher.
— Alice Walker
The little I knew about my own self wouldn't have filled a thimble!... But one thing I do thank her for, for teaching me to learn for myself, by reading and studying and writing a clear hand. And for keeping alive in me somehow the desire to know.
— Alice Walker
All my life I never care what people thought bout nothing I did,' I say. 'But deep down in my heart I care about God. What he going to think. And come to find out, he don't think. Just sit up there glorying in being deef, I reckon. But it ain't easy, trying to do without God. Even if you know he ain't there, trying to do without him is a strain.
— Alice Walker
So he bought her a car, only he refuse to show her how to drive it.
— Alice Walker
One day she say to me, Well, Miss Celie, I believe it time for me to go. When? I ast. Early next month, she say. June. June a good time to go off into the world.
— Alice Walker
June. June is a good time to go off into the world.
— Alice Walker
It not my salvation she working for. And if she don't learn she got to face judgment for herself, she won't even have live.
— Alice Walker
I wish I could be traveling with her, but thank God she able to do it. Sometimes I feel mad at her. Feel like I could scratch her hair right off her head. But then I think, Shug got a right to live too. She got a right to look over the world in whatever company she choose. Just cause I love her don't take away none of her rights.
— Alice Walker