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
spring years long
As long as the Earth can make a spring every year, I can.
white earth sugar
Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.
wisdom hair understanding
One thing that never ceases to amaze me, along with the growth of vegetation from the earth and of hair from the head, is the growth of understanding.
art sight color
The sight of a Black nun strikes their sentimentality; and, as I am unalterably rooted in native ground, they consider me a work of primitive art, housed in a magical color; the incarnation of civilized, anti-heathenism, and the fruit of a triumphing idea.
bliss creation periods
Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
mother song writing
No song or poem will bear my mother's name. Yet so many of the stories that I write, that we all write, are my mother's stories.
outcast walks
Be an outcast. Be pleased to walk alone.
thinking i-can knows
I know what I'm thinking bout, I think. Nothing. And as much of it as I can.
knowledge thinking glad
I don't know nothing, I think. And glad of it.
mean religion knows
Just because I don't harass it like some peoples us know don't mean I ain't got religion.
crime dissent originals
The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
evil who-we-are language
Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.
want
My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.
men thinking white-man
The good news may be that Nature is phasing out the white man, but the bad news is that's who She thinks we all are.