The Color Purple

I BELIEVE God is everything. . . 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... My first step from the old white man was trees. Then air. Then birds. Then other people. But
one day when I was sitting quiet and feeling like a motherless child, which I was, it come to me: that feeling of being part of
everything, not separate at all. I knew that if I cut a tree, my arm would bleed. And I laughed and I cried and I run all round
the house. I knew just what it was. In fact, when it happen, you can't miss it. - Alice Walker