Alice Walker

It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's 'mature' critics often are. ”

I think 'The Color Purple' is so bursting with love, the need for connection, the showing of the need for connection around the globe. ”

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. ”

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

Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week. ”

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. ”

I just think cities are unnatural, basically. I know there are people who live happily in them, and I have cities that I love, too. But it's a disaster that we have moved so far from nature. ”

Many readers fail to realize this, but 'The Color Purple' is a theological text. It is about the reclamation of one's original God: the earth and nature. ”

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful. ”

I think that I do feel that my nature is to express what this self, this particular self at this time, experiences in the world. And that is so organic - I use this metaphor a lot but I'll use it again - it's like a pine tree producing pine cones, or a blackberry bush producing blackberries - it's just what happens with this being, now. ”