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
change confidence life-changing
we are the ones we have been waiting for
long personality waiting
Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don't even recognize that growth is happening...Those long periods when something inside ourselves seems to be waiting, holding its breath, unsure about what the next step should be, eventually become the periods we wait for, for it is in those periods that we realize that we are being prepared for the next phase of our life and that, in all probability, a new level of the personality is about to be revealed.
successful expression order
I am an expression of the divine, just like a peach is, just like a fish is. I have a right to be this way...I can't apologize for that, nor can I change it, nor do I want to... We will never have to be other than who we are in order to be successful...We realize that we are as ourselves unlimited and our experiences valid. It is for the rest of the world to recognize this, if they choose.
happiness success being-happy
Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.
saved
Anything we love can be saved.
creating soul creating-beauty
Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
friendship memorable real-friends
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
friendship fashion silence
no person is your friend (or kin) who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow and be perceived as fully blossomed as you were intended. Or who belittles in any fashion the gifts you labor so to bring into the world.
inspirational motivational positive
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
self light darkness
When life descends into the pit I must become my own candle Willingly burning my self To light up the darkness around me.
jobs self evil
The protection of evil must be the most self-destructive job.
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I grew up in the South under segregation. So, I know what terrorism feels like - when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn't look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. I mean, that's terrorism, too.
creative full mind
The creative mind is not a mind full of stuff.
attacked distressed terrorists united
I was distressed that after 9/11, when the United States was attacked by terrorists, the United States' response was to attack Afghanistan, where some of the terrorists had been.