Quotes About Awareness

Take care how you place your moccasins upon the Earth, step with care, for the faces of the future generations are looking up from the Earth waiting their turn for life.

God is inside you and inside everybody else. You come into the world with God. But only them that search for it inside find it. And sometimes it just manifest itself even if you not looking, or don't know what you looking for.

Why can't Tashi come to school? she asked me. When I told her the Olinka don't believe in educating girls she said, quick as a flash, They're like white people at home who don't want colored people to learn.

My first step from the old white man was trees. Then air. Then birds. Then other people. But one day when I was sitting quiet and feeling like a motherless child, which I was, it come to me: that feeling of being part of everything, not separate at all. I knew that if I cut a tree, my arm would bleed. And I laughed and I cried and I run all around the house. I knew just what it was. In fact, when it happen, you can't miss it.

unbelief is a terrible thing. And so is the hurt we cause others unknowingly.

We will never regret having been born in this cruel time for we recognize it for what it is: the time of fullness of heart.

Nobody feel better for killing nothing. They feel something is all.

Well, us talk and talk bout God, but I'm still adrift. Trying to chase that old white man out of my head. I been so busy thinking bout him I never truly notice nothing God make. Not a blade of corn (how it do that?) not the color purple (where it come from?). Not the little wildflowers. Nothing.

Still, it is like Shug say, You have to git man off your eyeball, before you can see anything a'tall

Alice Walker "I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. People think pleasing God is all God cares about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.

a very sensitive soul who hears what isn't said as clearly as what is.

To work for peace Means First of all Not to be Ignorant About who Has none.

I think it pisses God off when you walk by the color purple in a field and don't notice it.

He had no such dreams, certainly. And if he had them, he did not recall them, on rising. Nor could he fathom why this should be so. In fact, dreams, the world of dreams, did not exist for him, as it existed for her. And unlike her, he did not sit before the dwindling fire of their hearth wondering, pondering, nagging the question really, What does this mean?

THEY DO NOT WANT to hear what their children suffer. They've made the telling of the suffering itself taboo.

If every man in this courtroom had had his penis removed, what then? Would they understand better that that condition is similar to that of all the women in this room? That, even as we sit here, the women are suffering from the unnatural constrictions of flesh their bodies have been whittled and refashioned into?

No one is exempt from the possibility of a conscious connection to All That Is.

Shug say, Wellsah, and I thought it was only whitefolks do freakish things like that.

They were assumed, like women and cats, to have no souls.

Longe dos olhos, longe do pensamento.

Although only 7 percent of Americans have passports—a shocking realization since we seem to be everywhere—99 percent of us have television or the Internet.

how do you know when you really love someone? Sometimes you don't know, I said.

it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.

No one is exempt from the possibility of a conscious connection to All That Is. Not the poor. Not the suffering. Not the writer sitting in the open field. This