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
lonely loneliness taken
The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.
want knows
I'm for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.
self abortion defense
Abortion is an act of self-defense.
mirrors greed revolt
Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
struggle animal justice
But if by some miracle and all our struggle, the earth is spared, only justice to every living being will save humankind.
spring years long
As long as the Earth can make a spring every year, I can.
white earth sugar
Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.
wisdom hair understanding
One thing that never ceases to amaze me, along with the growth of vegetation from the earth and of hair from the head, is the growth of understanding.
bliss creation periods
Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
outcast walks
Be an outcast. Be pleased to walk alone.
want
My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.
evil who-we-are language
Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.
crime dissent originals
The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
knowledge thinking glad
I don't know nothing, I think. And glad of it.