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The Color Purple

Now a Broadway musical Winner of the Pulitzer Prize Winner of the National Book Award Published to unprecedented acclaim, The Color Purple established Alice Walker as a major voice i

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“Everything want to be loved. Us sing and dance and holler, just trying to be loved.”

— Alice Walker, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Being Loved

“...have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show. Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. And I think all the other folks did too. They come to church to share God, not find God.”

— Alice Walker, amazon.com

Tagged: God, Church, Organized Religion

“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, amazon.com

Tagged: Wonder, Love, Big Things

“I am an expression of the divine, just like a peach is, just like a fish is. I have a right to be this way...I can't apologize for that, nor can I change it, nor do I want to....We will never have to be other than who we are in order to be successful....We realize that we are as ourselves unlimited…”

— Alice Walker, amazon.com

Tagged: divine, Peach, fish, Apologize

“I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. 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, amazon.com

Tagged: Religion, God, Fool, Nature

“The jail you planned for me is the one you're gonna rot in.”

— Alice Walker, amazon.com

Tagged: Motivational, Powerful, Strong, Empowering, Truth

“But it ain't easy, trying to do without God even if you know he ain't there, trying to do without him is a strain.”

— Alice Walker, amazon.com

Tagged: God, Religion, Suffering

“Time moves slowly, but passes quickly.”

— Alice Walker, amazon.com

Tagged: Time, Life, enjoy life

“Have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show. Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. And I think all the other folks did too. They come to church to share God, not find God.”

— Alice Walker, amazon.com

Tagged: God, Church, Religion

“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.”

— Alice Walker, amazon.com