Poetry Quote by Alice Walker — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“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”

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

“Here's the thing, say Shug. The thing I believe. 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. Sorrow, lord. Feeling like shit.”

“Man corrupt everything, say Shug. He on your box of grits, in your head, and all over the radio. He try to make you think he everywhere. Soon as you think he everywhere, you think he God. But he ain't. Whenever you trying to pray, and man plop himself on the other end of it, tell him to git lost, say Shug. Conjure up the flowers, wind, water, a big rock.”

“Expect nothing. Live frugally”

“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.”

“Matched with an aged wife, I mete and dole”

“...so i will greet you”

“Put a girl in”

“My heart is lost; the beasts have eaten it.”

“Hearts rebuilt from hope resurrect dreams killed by hate.”

“grief is a house”