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
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I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.
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I see children, all children, as humanity's most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left.
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Every soul is to be cherished, every flower is to bloom.
writing people understanding
Writing about people helps us to understand them, and understanding them helps us to accept them as part of ourselves.
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I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.
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What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.
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Ignorance, arrogance, and racism have bloomed as Superior Knowledge in all too many universities.
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I had assumed that the Earth, the spirit of the Earth, noticed exceptions-those who wantonly damage it and those who do not. But the Earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.
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Animals can communicate quite well. And they do. And generally speaking, they are ignored
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The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.
tea picnics literature
Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.
home literature
Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.
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the world has changed: it did not change without your prayers without your faith without your determination to believe in liberation and kindness; without your dancing through the years that had no beat.
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My heart hurt so much I can't believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?