Propaganda is amazing. People can be led to believe anything. — Alice Walker

We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier. — Alice Walker

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. — Alice Walker

There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through any spiritual or moral or physical devastation. — Alice Walker

Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. — Alice Walker

So i thought, ‘umm ok.’. — Alice Walker

If you’re silent for a long time, people just arrive in your mind. — Alice Walker

Every time I conjure up a rock, I throw it. — Alice Walker

For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended. — Alice Walker

It no longer bothers me that I may constantly be searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all. — Alice Walker

Time moves slowly, but passes quickly. — Alice Walker

It seems our fate to be incorrect (look where we live, for example), and in our incorrectness stand. — Alice Walker

The nature of this flower is to bloom. — Alice Walker

The Nature of This Flower Is to Bloom Rebellious. Living. Against the Elemental Crush. A Song of Color Blooming For Deserving Eyes. Blooming Gloriously For its Self. — Alice Walker

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. — Alice Walker

It’s so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that’s what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom. — Alice Walker

Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. you ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk — Alice Walker

Ignorance, arrogance, and racism have bloomed as Superior Knowledge in all too many universities. — 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

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it. — Alice Walker

Be nobody’s darling, be an outcast. Take the contradictions of your life and wrap around. You like a shawl, to parry stones, to keep you warm. — Alice Walker

On a spiritual level, it’s as though with my sighted eye I see what’s before me, and with my unsighted eye I see what’s hidden. It’s illuminated life more than darkened it. — Alice Walker

Helped are those who are content to be themselves; they will never lack mystery in their lives and the joys of self–discovery will be constant. — Alice Walker

The animals of The planet are in desperate peril… without free animal life i believe we will lose The spiritual equivalent of oxygen. — Alice Walker

I have the uncanny feeling that, just at the end of my life, I am beginning to reinhabit completely the body I long ago left. — 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

The experience of god, or in any case The possibility of experiencing god, is innate. — Alice Walker

Activism is my rent for living on the planet. — Alice Walker

Fiction is such a world of freedom, it’s wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly. — Alice Walker

The world is changing. It is no longer a world just for boys and men — Alice Walker

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

The most important question in the world is, ‘Why is the child crying?’ — Alice Walker

Writing poems is my way of celebrating with the world that I have not committed suicide the evening before. — Alice Walker

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. — 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

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men. — Alice Walker