858 Quotes by Alice Walker

May our call be from this day onward, to all the creatures and beings of the planet who have no voice: I have come to you, for you, to be a witness to your life and to extend whatever understanding and happiness I can.

No song or poem will bear my mother’s name. Yet so many of the stories that I write, that we all write, are my mother’s stories.

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.

I talk to myself a lot, standing in front the mirror. Celie, I say, happiness was just a trick in your case. Just cause you never had any before Shug, you thought it was time to have some, and that it was gon last. Even thought you had the trees with you. The whole earth. The stars. But look at you. When Shug left, happiness desert.

The challenge for me is not to be a follower of Something but to embody it;.

Until you do right by me, I say, everything you even dream about will fail. I give it to him straight, just like it come to me. And it seem to come to me from the trees.

World wars have been fought and lost; for every war is against the world and every war against the world is lost.

I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply; it’s almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves.

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.