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
progress revolution
Progress' affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
healing done settling
Healing cannot be done by settling a score.
evil television world
My activism really is for myself, because I see places in the world where I feel I should be. If there is something really bad, really evil, happening somewhere, then that is where I should be. I need, for myself, to feel that I have stood there. It feels a lot better than just watching it on television.
curiosity mind natural
Curiosity is my natural state and has led me headlong into every worthwhile experience (never mind the others) I have ever had.
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.
music people needs
Only dead people need loud music, you know.
moving eye world
To know is to exist; to exist is to be involved, to move about, to see the world with my own eyes.
freedom allowing
allowing freedom to others brings freedom to ourselves.
garden two hours
I can spend two hours grubbing about in my garden, dazed with pleasure and intent, and it feels like five minutes.
god nature mind
How anyone cannot see that Nature is God is amazing to me: that they'd rather worship something that can only exist, really, in their own minds.
god thinking world
God is inside you and inside everybody else. You come into the world with God. But only them that search for it inside find it. And sometimes it just manifest itself even if you not looking, or don't know what you looking for. Trouble do it for most folks, I think. ... Yeah, It. God ain't a he or a she, but a 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.
beautiful earth care
Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it's a good place that we're all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it.
stones outcast contradiction
Be nobody's darling; Be an outcast. Take the contradictions Of your life And wrap around You like a shawl, To parry stones To keep you warm.