Alice Walker

Alice Walker

"The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate."
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"The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate."
Alice Walker
"As long as the people don't fear the truth, there is hope. For once they fear it, the one who tells it doesn't stand a chance. And today, truth is still beautiful... but so frightening."
Alice Walker
"Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be."
Alice Walker
"This is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money and power and no empathy."
Alice Walker
"Propaganda is amazing. People can be led to believe anything."
Alice Walker
"All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world."
Alice Walker
"Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it's a good place that we're all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it."
Alice Walker
"Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding."
Alice Walker
"I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself - then they get to say 'See, you did it yourself."
Alice Walker
"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 my religion."
Alice Walker
"If we want to fight people in the world, we should fight them with pillows - pillows stuffed with food, medicine, music... That would be so much cheaper than bombs."
Alice Walker
"Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself."
Alice Walker
"In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you've become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that's the height of intelligence."
Alice Walker
"Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom."
Alice Walker
"Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also."
Alice Walker
"I understood at a very early age that in nature, I felt everything I should feel in church but never did. Walking in the woods, I felt in touch with the universe and with the spirit of the universe."
Alice Walker
"In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful."
Alice Walker
"I think 'The Color Purple' is so bursting with love, the need for connection, the showing of the need for connection around the globe."
Alice Walker
"War contributes greatly to global warming, which shouldn't surprise us. All those bombs going off, all those rockets, all those planes and helicopters. All that fuel of various kinds being used. It pollutes the air and water of this very fragile and interconnected planet."
Alice Walker
"If you want to have a life that is worth living, a life that expresses your deepest feelings and emotions and cares and dreams, you have to fight for it."
Alice Walker
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