Quotes from Alice Walker

Nature has created us with the capacity to know God, to experience God.

Always with me was the inner twin: my true nature, my true self. It is timeless, free, compassionate and in love with whatever is natural to me

The good news may be that Nature is phasing out the white man, but the bad news is that's who She thinks we all are.

As long as the Earth can make a spring every year I can. As long as the Earth can flower and produce nurturing fruit I can because I'm the Earth. I won't give up until the Earth gives up.

It just seems clear to me that as long as we are all here, it's pretty clear that the struggle is to share the planet, rather than divide it.

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

There is always a moment in any kind of struggle when one feels in full bloom. Vivid. Alive. One might be blown to bits in such a moment and still be at peace.

Animals can communicate quite well. And they do. And generally speaking, they are ignored

Poetry, I have discovered, is always unexpected and always as faithful and honest as dreams.

I believe God is everything, say Shug. Everything that is or ever was or ever will be. And when you can feel that, and be happy to feel that, you've found It.

Dear God...I have always been a good girl. Maybe you can give me a sign letting me know what is happening to me.

How anyone cannot see that Nature is God is amazing to me: that they'd rather worship something that can only exist, really, in their own minds.

My God is not a religious God. My God is nature, my God is everything there is. That's God. Everything is God. I'm a child of that.

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

I don't know. I imagine good teaching as a circle of earnest people sitting down to ask each other meaningful questions. I don't see it as a handing down of answers.

You really can't be a good artist if you can't say what you really feel. And people may be offended, but, you know, that's how you feel, and that is your right, and that is your gift as well.

Being happy is not the only happiness.

If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.

All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.

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

What you hope for, you also fear.

I see children, all children, as humanity's most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left.

The artist...is the voice of the people.

Dear Nettie, I don't write to God no more, I write to you.