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
dog needs body
You a low down dog is what’s wrong. It’s time to leave you and enter into the creation. And your dead body just the welcome mat I need.
mother strong father
My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father's head. It taught me about women defending themselves and not collapsing in a heap.
spiritual believe people
There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through any spiritual or moral or physical devastation.
men boys world
The world is changing. It is no longer a world just for boys and men
feminist black doe
I just like to have words that describe things correctly. Now to me, 'black feminist' does not do that. I need a word that is organic, that really comes out of the culture, that really expresses the spirit that we see in black women. And it's just... womanish.
want knows
I'm for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.
book reading world
Books became my world because the world I was in was very hard.
thinking color appreciate
I think colors are miraculous. We live in a universe that is extremely creative and magical. We become happier as we appreciate these things in nature.
writing should-have want
I write not only what I want to read...I write all the things I should have been able to read.
heart wish expect-nothing
Wish for nothing larger Than your own small heart.
self abortion defense
Abortion is an act of self-defense.
mirrors greed revolt
Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
struggle animal justice
But if by some miracle and all our struggle, the earth is spared, only justice to every living being will save humankind.
art artist voice
The artist...is the voice of the people.