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
writing poet novel
I started out as a poet. I've always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be fundamentally a poet who got into writing novels.
country space used
I realized I was a country person - I'm just not used to small spaces.
known felt one-thing
I have never felt that the one thing that I am 'known for' is what I am.
children writing criticism
It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's 'mature' critics often are.
lonely loneliness taken
The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.
mean impact life-is
My life is not to be somebody else's impact - you know what I mean?
thinking america shadow
I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America's really large shadow and that's not all that bad.
stubborn persons knows
I'm the most stubborn person I know.
confused party government
Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.
buddhist believe free-spirit
I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire and enjoy it; that's my religion.
children believe teaching
We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.
men delight enough
I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself - then they get to say 'See, you did it yourself.'
reading writing generations
Sometimes, reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled, and can no longer spell or write a sentence.
writing people feelings
It's an awful feeling to write something that you feel is really important... and to feel that you're being published by people who really don't get it and/or don't really care.