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
memories grandmother virginia
My great-great-great-grandmother walked as a slave from Virginia to Eatonton, Georgia... It is in memory of this walk that I chose to keep and to embrace my "maiden" name, Walker.
acceptance perfect worry
Everything is already perfect. And if you can accept that everything is already perfect, the imperfection is a part of the perfection. What's to worry about?
justice social-justice live-free
I could never live happily in Africa-or anywhere else-until I could live freely in Mississippi.
differences justice done
It's essential that we understand that taking care of the planet will be done as we take care of ourselves. You know that you can't really make much of a difference in things until you change yourself.
peace gun men
How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.
waiting gardening fruit
What gardening teaches us is that if you plant things, they'll come up. But you have to be willing to wait for them to bear fruit because things are seasonal.
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.
religious children
My God is not a religious God. My God is nature, my God is everything there is. That's God. Everything is God. I'm a child of that.
animal use just-being
Animals were not made for us, or our use. They have their own use, which is just being who they are.
running encouragement thinking
If you don't have the ability or encouragement to use yourself in a physical way, you could become just another talking head. And talking heads run things. That's part of the reason why we're in such a sad state as a planet, because it's all about thinking, and thinking has led to a lot of aggrandizement - taking over [resources] and figuring out how you can steal and leaving people and the planet in an impoverished state.
friendship memorable real-friends
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
successful expression order
I am an expression of the divine, just like a peach is, just like a fish is. I have a right to be this way...I can't apologize for that, nor can I change it, nor do I want to... We will never have to be other than who we are in order to be successful...We realize that we are as ourselves unlimited and our experiences valid. It is for the rest of the world to recognize this, if they choose.
long people mind
If you're silent for a long time, people just arrive in your mind.
creating soul creating-beauty
Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.