Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful. Alice Walker More Quotes by Alice Walker More Quotes From Alice Walker I can spend two hours grubbing about in my garden, dazed with pleasure and intent, and it feels like five minutes. Alice Walker hours garden two 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. Trouble do it for most folks, I think. ... Yeah, It. God ain't a he or a she, but a It. Alice Walker god world thinking What a burden to think one is conceived in sin rather than in pleasure; that one is born into evil rather than into joy. Alice Walker evil joy thinking I'm not [a Buddhist]. The whole point of anything that is really, truly valuable to your soul, and your own growth, is not to attach to a teacher, but rather to find out what the real deal is in the world itself. You become your own guide. The teachings can help you, but really, we're all here with the opportunity the reality of hereness. We all have that. I trust that...I'm just not interested in labels. I find all of them constrictive. They're hard to wear. And they're hard to wear because we're always - hopefully - growing. Alice Walker buddhist faith teacher Even as I hold you, I am letting you go. Alice Walker letting-go-and-moving-on saying-goodbye letting-you-go In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful. Alice Walker nature beautiful beauty 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. Alice Walker family-life teach patience Israel is guilty of apartheid and persecution of the Palestinian people, both inside Israel and also in the Occupied Territories. Alice Walker territory israel people We writers - we're the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape. Alice Walker snowflake shapes world The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate. Alice Walker possibility experience god I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ask. And that in wondering bout the big things and asking bout the big things, you learn about the little ones, almost by accident. But you never know nothing more about the big things than you start out with. The more I wonder, the more I love. Alice Walker wonder-love life thinking The Olinka girls do not believe girls should be educated. When I asked a mother why she thought this, she said: A girl is nothing to herself; only to her husband can she become something. What can she become? I asked. Why, she said, the mother of his children. But I am not the mother of anybody's children, I said, and I am something. Alice Walker girl mother children You know a little drink now and then never hurt nobody, but when you can't git started without asking the bottle, you in trouble. Alice Walker bottles hurt drinking Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly. Alice Walker want fiction world Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it. Alice Walker inspirational-life believe death Criticism is painful when it's not done with love. Alice Walker painful done criticism 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. Alice Walker ubuntu struggle peace She say, Celie, tell the truth, have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show. Alice Walker church humorous funny no person is your friend (or kin) who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow and be perceived as fully blossomed as you were intended. Or who belittles in any fashion the gifts you labor so to bring into the world. Alice Walker fashion silence friendship I am not interested in being a role model, or in fulfilling the expectations of others. I know I am of most use to others and to myself by being this unique self: Nature, I have noticed, is not particularly devoted to copies, and human beings needn't be either. Alice Walker role-models unique self
