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
love-is hatred want
Love is big; love can hold anger, love can even hold hatred. It's about the intention of what you want it to do.
purple trying want
Everything want to be loved. Us sing and dance and holler, just trying to be loved.
want knows
I'm for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.
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.
want
My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.
hair left-alone wanted
Eventually I knew what hair wanted; it wanted to be itself ... to be left alone by anyone, including me, who did not love it as it was.
want natural
It is natural to want to have a future.
want fiction world
Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.
heart trying want
I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
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.
american-author power
Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.