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
stuff god-love pleasing-god
Listen, God loves everything you love, and a mess of stuff you don't.
baby believe thinking
In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you've become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that's the height of intelligence.
writing interesting violence
Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence - as it saves most writers who live in 'interesting' oppressive times and are not afflicted by personal immunity.
justice one-day firsts
As we talked of freedom and justice one day for all, we sat down to steaks. I am eating misery, I thought, as I took the first bite. And spit it out.
responsibility artist world
Artists are messengers whose responsibility is to unite the world -- a faith that will lead not to destruction but to transformation.
mean thinking america
I continue to care for President Obama and for his family. I think that in many ways they are very courageous people, and I honor that, because I know what it means to live as a black person in a racist America.
country mean house
Now there are heavy houses everywhere and more of them are being built. In fact, it is only when more houses are being constructed that some countries consider their economics healthy. Yet each house is a heavy footprint on the Earth. Just as all our possessions represent-if we cannot learn ways of sharing them-a weight and clutter that often means the faces of future generations will look up into darkness and the pressure on the Earth of "things."
winning views particular
In our particular society, it is the narrowed and narrowing view of life that often wins.
heart laughing humour
HELPED are those who laugh with a pure heart; theirs will be the company of the jolly righteous.
magic delight astonishment
HELPED are those who are shown the existence of the Creator's magic in the Universe; they shall experience delight and astonishment without ceasing.
wise earth-day given
The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.
country cities web-of-life
HELPED are those who love the entire cosmos rather than their own tiny country, city, or farm, for to them will be shown the unbroken web of life and the meaning of infinity.
sincerely invited
Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited.
prayer world depends
HELPED are those whose every act is a prayer for peace; on them depends the future of the world.