Alice Walker
Alice Walker
Alice Malsenior Walkeris an American novelist, short story writer, poet, and activist. She wrote the critically acclaimed novel The Color Purplefor which she won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. She also wrote Meridian and The Third Life of Grange Copeland, among other works...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth9 February 1944
CityEatonton, GA
CountryUnited States of America
husband thinking heaven
Well, sometime Mr —— git on me pretty hard. I have to talk to Old Maker. But he my husband. I shrug my shoulders. This life soon be over, I say. Heaven last all ways. You ought to bash Mr —— head open, she say. Think bout heaven later.
girl cousin brother
All my life I had to fight. I had to fight my daddy. I had to fight my brothers. I had to fight my cousins and my uncles. A girl child ain't safe in a family of men. But I never thought I'd have to fight in my own house. She let out her breath. I loves Harpo, she say. God knows I do. But I'll kill him dead before I let him beat me.
said fine
Like I said...fine with me.
hurt drinking bottles
You know a little drink now and then never hurt nobody, but when you can't git started without asking the bottle, you in trouble.
real healing self
Storytelling, you know, has a real function. The process of the storytelling is itself a healing process, partly because you have someone there who is taking the time to tell you a story that has great meaning to them. They're taking the time to do this because your life could use some help, but they don't want to come over and just give advice. They want to give it to you in a form that becomes inseparable from your whole self. That's what stories do. Stories differ from advice in that, once you get them, they become a fabric of your whole soul. That is why they heal you.
surprise expecting
Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
freedom allowing
allowing freedom to others brings freedom to ourselves.
people trustworthy peril
Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
garden two hours
I can spend two hours grubbing about in my garden, dazed with pleasure and intent, and it feels like five minutes.
god nature mind
How anyone cannot see that Nature is God is amazing to me: that they'd rather worship something that can only exist, really, in their own minds.
healing done settling
Healing cannot be done by settling a score.
age planets persons
It must become a right of every person to die of old age. And if we secure this right for ourselves, we can, coincidentally, assure it for the planet.
fall trouble enough
If a person is hit hard enough, even if she stands, she falls.
music people needs
Only dead people need loud music, you know.