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
peace gun men
How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.
peace struggle ubuntu
It just seems clear to me that as long as we are all here, it's pretty clear that the struggle is to share the planet, rather than divide it.
peace children passion
The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'
peace ubuntu political
What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.
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The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.
peace alive pay
Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
peace thinking ubuntu
I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.
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War will stop when we no longer praise it, or give it any attention at all. Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited.
anywhere people
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.
confused learn ourselves
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.