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
circle four meets months
I advocate that every woman be a part of a circle, and a circle that meets at least once a month, or if you can't do that, once every two months or every four months.
love opportunity others
You have to give others the opportunity to love who you love. If they don't accept it, it's their loss.
cannot
You cannot see the changes that you're dreaming about, because they're internal.
wrote
My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig.
helped
Meditation has been a loyal friend to me. It has helped me write my books.
people
If you deny people their own voice, you'll have no idea of who they were.
felt quite stay track
I've always felt quite singular, even as a child. That I must stay on track to keep my purpose.
dear teaches
I gave my archive to Emory University because there's a really dear friend who teaches there, Rudolph Byrd, and he's the editor.
courage dormant dreams fulfill summon women
Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams.
love particular segment women
I love the women's movement, and I never thought of it as belonging to any particular segment of the population.
behaviour cease children everywhere power
We must do everything in our power to cease the behaviour that makes children everywhere feel afraid.
The fact is that when you do something from your heart, you leave a heart print.
creatures existence
We must begin seeing other creatures as equal. Existence makes us all equal.
american-author felt god
Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me.