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
If I could live as a tree, as a river, as the moon, as the sun, as a star, as the earth,… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
We alone can devalue gold by not caring if it falls or rises in the marketplace. Wherever there is gold there is… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
You really can't be a good artist if you can't say what you really feel. And people may be offended, but, you… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Be compassionate to everyone. Don't just search for whatever it is that annoys and frightens you-see beyond those things to the basic… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Everything is already perfect. And if you can accept that everything is already perfect, the imperfection is a part of the perfection.… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
After all, how can a society flourish, a country attain democracy and health, children grow into intelligent beings, sensitive to the needs… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
If you don't have the ability or encouragement to use yourself in a physical way, you could become just another talking head.… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
To grow, to become spiritually alive, and vibrant, you really have to struggle. Without struggle, you do not move at all...I would… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
It must become a right of every person to die of old age. And if we secure this right for ourselves, we… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
As for those who think the Arab world promises freedom, the briefest study of its routine traditional treatment of blacks (slavery) and… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
You can just keep going and going and going, and you never get to the end of it because there is no… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts the universe has given you. And… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
The earth is for joy, and dancing is a big part of that. And you dance with nature. Nature is always dancing.… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
If I'm killed - if I'm removed - there is nowhere else for me to go but to my ancestors. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
before I embark on any new venture, I ask myself: will the joy of doing this make me lose track of any… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I want something else; a different system entirely. One not seen on this earth for thousands of years. If ever. Democratic Womanism.… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I think if I could not get myself off my cushion, off my couch, or away from whatever I'm eating - or… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I don't know if you actually get something out of writing poetry. I think poetry is an autonomous muse that decides to… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
What gardening teaches us is that if you plant things, they'll come up. But you have to be willing to wait for… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
human animals and nonhuman animals can communicate quite well; if we are brought up around animals as children we take this for… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
We are a people. A people do not throw their geniuses away. If they do, it is our duty as witnesses for… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Now there are heavy houses everywhere and more of them are being built. In fact, it is only when more houses are… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Love yourself. Just love yourself. In fact, the love of the self cures every kind of problem you have with yourself. For… — 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
