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
wise earth-day damage
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.
animal pet ignored
Animals can communicate quite well. And they do. And generally speaking, they are ignored
technology men peaceful
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.
determination kindness prayer
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.
hurt believe heart
My heart hurt so much I can't believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?
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.