Quotes by Alice Walker

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and theyre still beautiful.

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.

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.

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.

In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, youve 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 thats the height of intelligence.

Dont wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get youve got to make yourself.

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.

I dont call myself a Buddhist. Im a free spirit. I believe Im here on earth to admire and enjoy it thats my religion.

Im 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.

Thank you is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.

Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And its a good place that were all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it.

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

Propaganda is amazing. People can be led to believe anything.

This is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money and power and no empathy.

Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.

As long as the people dont fear the truth, there is hope. For once they fear it, the one who tells it doesnt stand a chance. And today, truth is still beautiful... but so frightening.

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

Most damage that others do us is out of fear, humiliation and pain. Those feelings occur in all of us, not just in those of us who profess a certain religious or racial devotion.

One of the triumphs of the Civil Rights Movement is that when you travel through the South today, you do not feel overwhelmed by a residue of grievance and hate.

The infinite faith I have in peoples ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.