Many readers fail to realize this, but 'The Color Purple' is a theological text. It is about the reclamation of one's original… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
God is inside you and inside everybody else. You come into the world with God. But only them that search for it… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Man corrupt everything, say Shug. He on your box of grits, in your head, and all over the radio. He try to… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
...have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show.… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
My God is not a religious God. My God is nature, my God is everything there is. That's God. Everything is God.… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Nature has created us with the capacity to know God, to experience God. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Listen, God loves everything you love, and a mess of stuff you don't. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“Here's the thing, say Shug. The thing I believe. God is inside you and inside everybody else. You come into the world… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
How anyone cannot see that Nature is God is amazing to me: that they'd rather worship something that can only exist, really,… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“You telling me God love you, and you ain't never done nothing for him? I mean, not go to church, sing in… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
But it ain't easy, trying to do without God even if you know he ain't there, trying to do without him is… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I gave my archive to Emory University because there's a really dear friend who teaches there, Rudolph Byrd, and he's the editor. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Just be what it is that you are, and that is just fine. You don't have to be what you're not in any way.… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“Remember this-- say it & know it is true: Alice loves me Alice loves me and I am not blamed for this. ... she… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“Why aren't you happy in America, if everyone there drives motorcars?” — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“She saw poetry where other writers merely saw failure to cope with English.” — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
My mother had handed down respect for the possibilities...and the will to grasp them. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Helped are those who are content to be themselves; they will never lack mystery in their lives and the joys of self-discovery will be… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“As others might prepare for an exam whose subject matter is unknown to them, so I must study, cram, for every conversation with my… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
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… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Many readers fail to realize this, but 'The Color Purple' is a theological text. It is about the reclamation of one's original God: the… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
