You can love yourself spiritually, physically-in almost any way that anybody else can. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Just because I don't harass it like some peoples us know don't mean I ain't got religion. — 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
I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire and enjoy it; that's… — 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 feel that the ancestors are that covering that will cover me. I feel like I can only be enveloped in them… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I have a lot of faith in us. I have a lot of faith in humanity. It's based, though, on my own… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
She was so quiet. So reflective. And she could erase herself, her spirit, with a swiftness that truly startled, when she knew… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
On a spiritual level, it's as though with my sighted eye I see what's before me, and with my unsighted eye I… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Most damage that others do us is out of fear, humiliation and pain. Those feelings occur in all of us, not just… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
You don't need organized religion to connect with the universe. Often a church is the only place you can go to find… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I understood at a very early age that in nature, I felt everything I should feel in church but never did. Walking… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I had assumed that the Earth, the spirit of the Earth, noticed exceptions-those who wantonly damage it and those who do not.… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I think I'm led by spirit. I think I'm led by a sense of what is right and what feels good to… — 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
Storytelling is how we survive, when there's no feed, the story feeds something, it feeds the spirit, the imagination. I can't imagine… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“Pagan At home in the countryside I make the decision to leave your book --overdue at the library-- face up, 'promiscuous' out… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
You die - and this is why manmade religions don't work for so many of us. The notion that you're dead and… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“Kate thought Yolo was of the bear spirit. The bear, according to ancient people who had known bears well, was of a… — 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
