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
long shy ugly
For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended.
unbearable
I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply; it's almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves.
children people genius
We are a people. A people do not throw their geniuses away. If they do, it is our duty as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children. If necessary, bone by bone.
responsibility care planets
As an elder of the Americas and of the rest of the planet, it is my responsibility to care for and protect, to the best of my ability, the young.
faith capacity knowing-god
Nature has created us with the capacity to know God, to experience God.
war air water
War contributes greatly to global warming, which shouldn't surprise us. All those bombs going off, all those rockets, all those planes and helicopters. All that fuel of various kinds being used. It pollutes the air and water of this very fragile and interconnected planet.
animal sanctuary world
The Animals of the planet are in desperate peril and they are fully aware of this. No less than human beings are doing in all parts of the world, they are seeking sanctuary.
country ghetto thinking
I think that wealthy white people would like to have a country that resembles the Fifties, when all the minorities were tucked away in ghettos and paid in very low wages but on the surface it was very bright and shiny and free and the rest of the world would look on it longingly.
healing black made
Healing begins where the wound was made.
inspirational creativity godly
Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful.
happiness success perseverance
We will be ourselves and free, or die in the attempt. Harriet Tubman was not our great-grandmother for nothing.
mother garden heritage
Guided by my heritage of a love of beauty and a respect for strength - in search of my mother's garden, I found my own.
planets activism living-on
Activism is my rent for living on the planet.
heart broken open-heart
You can't truly have an open heart until it's been broken.