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
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.
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.
mother moving grandparent
Our mothers and grandmothers ... moving to music not yet written.
daughter mother teaching
I think mothers and daughters are meant to give birth to each other, over and over; that is why our challenges to each other are so fierce; that is why, when love and trust have not been too badly blemished or destroyed, the teaching and learning one from the other is so indelible and bittersweet. We daughters must risk losing the only love we instinctively feel we can't live without in order to be who we are, and I am convinced this sends a message to our mothers to break their own chains, though they may be anchored in prehistory and attached to their own great grandmothers' hearts.
mother children native-american
The forest is the first cathedral. I felt that from the time I was a child. I credit my mother with that. I used to think it came from her Native-American side. Whichever it was, she instinctively connected with nature, and taught me that.
mother thinking earth
I think that indigenous women's wisdom is crucial. So much of the care of the Earth has come from the mothers. I think it's imperative we turn to their wisdom in how to take care of the planet.
mother writing thinking
My writing is very organic. It's what I am. My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig. So I think of it as something that's very essential to my being.
family mother flower
And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.
mother garden heritage
Guided by my heritage of a love of beauty and a respect for strength - in search of my mother's garden, I found my own.
mother parenting garden
In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.
mom mother flawed
Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.
inspiring mother simple
How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
daughter mother possibility
My mother had handed down respect for the possibilities...and the will to grasp them.
mother people hatred
To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.