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

Quote by Alice Walker

Topics: Friendship Quotes

To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the...

To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the...

Horses make a landscape look beautiful.

Horses make a landscape look beautiful.

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure...

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure...

The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that...

The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that...

Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.

Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a...

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a...

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure...

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure...

People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress,...

People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress,...

Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You...

Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You...

It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by...

It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by...

There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it...

There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it...

And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the...

And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the...

I'm always amazed that people will actually choose to sit in front of the television...

I'm always amazed that people will actually choose to sit in front of the television...

Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.

Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.

It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get...

It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get...

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.

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

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

The older I get, the more I see The power of that young woman, my...

The older I get, the more I see The power of that young woman, my...

Daughters are like flowers, they fill the world with beauty, and sometimes attract pests

Daughters are like flowers, they fill the world with beauty, and sometimes attract pests

A daughter is a day brightener and a heart warmer.

A daughter is a day brightener and a heart warmer.

A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows...

A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows...