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
believe found shug
I believe God is everything, say Shug. 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.
saying-goodbye letting-you-go letting-go-and-moving-on
Even as I hold you, I am letting you go.
love marriage wonder-of-life
The more I wonder, the more I love.
peace alive pay
Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
war thinking impact
The harm that you do to others is the harm that you do to yourself and you cannot think then that you can cause wars in other parts of the world and destroy people and drone them without this having a terrible impact on your own soul and your own consciousness.
hard-times dancing proof
Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
real grief things-change
I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same, there's a real lightheartednes s about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they're not the same, ever again.
long accommodations term
The long-term accommodation that protects marriage and other such relationships is ... forgetfulness.
people infinite justified
The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.
blow mystery busy
Helped are those too busy living to respond when they are wrongfully attacked: on their walks they shall find mysteries so intriguing as to distract them from every blow.
compassion balance cruelty
Human compassion is equal to human cruelty, and it is up to each of us to tip the balance.
war immature should
To me war is something to be outgrown, recognized as immature, wasteful, and so destructive to life that human beings should shun it ... as they once shunned bubonic plague.
memories way life-is
The only way to solace anyone who loved you in life is to be a good memory
block moving ideas
You are saying, are you not, I said to Manuelito, that stories have more room in them than ideas? [...] He laughed. That is correct, Señor. It is as if ideas are made of blocks. Rigid and hard. And stories are made of a gauze that is elastic. You can almost see through it, so what is beyond is tantalizing. You can't quite make it out; and because the imagination is always moving forward, you yourself are constantly stretching. Stories are the way spirit is exercised.