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
criticize people praise prefer rather
I prefer to praise people and the world rather than criticize them and it.
act artists responsibility
Artists have a responsibility to speak and to act when governments fail, and if we don't do that, we really deserve the world we get.
people
Can people who hunger so desperately for what other people have ever have enough?
hard time
I cannot claim to have had a hard time publishing.
My interest in creating anything is that it be useful.
hard
It's very hard for our parents who see us enter a world that they can't imagine.
since
I was brought up to try to see what was wrong and right it. Since I am a writer, writing is how I right it.
incredibly war
I think war is so incredibly backward, and I don't think it's intelligent, and it's not sane. So why would you want to support it?
I never have an intended audience. I just write, you know.
I don't know if I've ever cared much what others think.
east
I don't feel I've had a decent critic ever on the East coast.
I cry so much less than I used to. I used to be one of the most teary people.
We should not look down on our first ancestors.
people
Some people are painters, and some are ballet dancers, and I'm a writer.