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
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.
people earth saved
Surely the earth can be saved by all the people who insist on love.
stars writing moon
If I could live as a tree, as a river, as the moon, as the sun, as a star, as the earth, as a rock, I would. ...Writing permits me to experience life as any number of strange creations.
inspiring god religious
I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.
mother parenting garden
In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.
mom mother flawed
Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.
peace thinking ubuntu
I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.
self-esteem literature week
Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.