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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'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say.
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Well, capitalism is a big problem, because with capitalism you're just going to keep buying and selling things until there's nothing else to buy and sell, which means gobbling up the planet.
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Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.
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Horses make a landscape look beautiful.
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Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.
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If you want to have a life that is worth living, a life that expresses your deepest feelings and emotions, and cares and dreams, you have to fight for it.
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Just be what it is that you are, and that is just fine. You don't have to be what you're not in any way. Live that and live that fully, and that is where you discover ecstasy. You can't really have ecstasy as something other than yourself
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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.
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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.