Quote #196923
I don’t call myself a Buddhist. I’m a free spirit. I believe I’m here on earth to admire and enjoy it that’s my religion.
Alice Walker
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Interpretation
In this remark Walker rejects being neatly categorized by a formal religious label (“Buddhist”) and instead claims an identity grounded in personal freedom and direct experience. “Free spirit” signals a spirituality that is self-authored rather than institutionally defined. By calling admiration and enjoyment of earthly life “my religion,” she reframes the sacred as attentive presence: valuing beauty, pleasure, and gratitude as ethical-spiritual practice. The line also implies a quiet critique of dogma—suggesting that reverence for life can be sufficient without doctrinal allegiance. In Walker’s broader public persona, it resonates with her recurring emphasis on wholeness, nature, and the dignity of lived experience as sources of meaning.




