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

Quote by Alice Walker

Topics: Friendship Quotes

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have...

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have...

Horses make a landscape look beautiful.

Horses make a landscape look beautiful.

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are,...

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are,...

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for...

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for...

Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.

Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all...

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all...

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...

Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.

Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.

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...

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

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

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.

The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

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...

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and...

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and...

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...

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

We 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...

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

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

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,...

Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.

Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.