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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I think 'The Color Purple' is so bursting with love, the need for connection, the showing of the need for connection around the globe.
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I wanted in my lifetime to vote for a radical Native American woman, since my vision of any future that we might have is that it will be led by women and older women.
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The dropping of bombs on people - isn't that terrorism?
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My family was a poor farming family, and we lived under absolute segregation.
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From infancy, I have relied on the fiercely sweet spirits of black men; and this is abundantly clear in my work.
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One child must never be set above another, even in casual conversation, not to mention in speeches that circle the globe.
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A good model of how to 'work with the enemy' internally is presented by the Dalai Lama, in his endless caretaking of his soul as he confronts the Chinese government that invaded Tibet.
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Sucking up to the biggies won't get us anywhere.
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Once you feel loved by the universe, you're already accepted, and you're not really concerned about offending people.
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I live on the West Coast of the United States, and yet the air that I breathe is sometimes the same air that was being breathed in China the day before.
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You bring children into the world. You love them with heart and soul.
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Women have to be extremely careful about choosing something that they consider an act of defiance that can really be used to further their enslavement.
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On a spiritual level, it's as though with my sighted eye I see what's before me, and with my unsighted eye I see what's hidden. It's illuminated life more than darkened it.
Part of my ancestry is Cherokee. And in that tradition, you become an adult when you're 52.