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
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I'm the most stubborn person I know.
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I'm for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.
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I know what I'm thinking bout, I think. Nothing. And as much of it as I can.
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Just because I don't harass it like some peoples us know don't mean I ain't got religion.
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But it ain't easy, trying to do without God even if you know he ain't there, trying to do without him is a strain
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But I don't know how to fight. All I know how to do is stay alive.
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Decide that you know what you think is good for you and go ahead and do it.
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I think that all people who feel that there is injustice in the world anywhere should learn as much of it as they can bear. That is our duty.
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At Sarah Lawrence, I realized that everybody was already what they were going to be. The painters were painting, the writers writing, the dancers dancing. And nobody wore any makeup. The art was uppermost.
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We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise.
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In the summer of 1966, I went to Mississippi to be in the heart of the civil-rights movement, helping people who had been thrown off the farms or taken off the welfare roles for registering to vote. While working there, I met the civil-rights lawyer I later married - we became an interracial couple.
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Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.
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One of the triumphs of the Civil Rights Movement is that when you travel through the South today, you do not feel overwhelmed by a residue of grievance and hate.
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Many readers fail to realize this, but 'The Color Purple' is a theological text. It is about the reclamation of one's original God: the earth and nature.