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
numbers needs certain
I don’t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends I can be certain of.
humorous church telling-the-truth
She say, Celie, tell the truth, have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show.
shapes world snowflake
We writers - we're the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
moving
Time moves slowly, but passes quickly.
discovery self joy
Helped are those who are content to be themselves; they will never lack mystery in their lives and the joys of self-discovery will be constant.
grief thinking voice
In each of us, there is a little voice that knows exactly which way to go. And I learned very early to listen to it, even though it has caused so much grief and havoc, and I think that is the only answer.
death inspirational-life believe
Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.
girl mother husband
The Olinka girls do not believe girls should be educated. When I asked a mother why she thought this, she said: A girl is nothing to herself; only to her husband can she become something. What can she become? I asked. Why, she said, the mother of his children. But I am not the mother of anybody's children, I said, and I am something.
work naps people
People who work hard often work too hard. ... May we learn to honor the hammock, the siesta, the nap and the pause in all its forms.
awful finally love people wake
I know black people love the idea that we finally have a beautiful, good-looking black president. But if he is doing awful things to us, we should wake up.
life though
On a spiritual level, it's as though with my sighted eye I see what's before me, and with my unsighted eye I see what's hidden. It's illuminated life more than darkened it.
careful choosing defiance extremely further women
Women have to be extremely careful about choosing something that they consider an act of defiance that can really be used to further their enslavement.
breathed coast united west
I live on the West Coast of the United States, and yet the air that I breathe is sometimes the same air that was being breathed in China the day before.
offending
Once you feel loved by the universe, you're already accepted, and you're not really concerned about offending people.