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
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hatred way
There is no graceful way to carry hatred.
thank-you thanksgiving thankful
'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say.
saved
Anything we love can be saved.
fear-of-death blades-of-grass loses
HELPED are those who lose their fear of death; theirs is the power to envision the future in a blade of grass.
sincerely invited
Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited.
trust people matter
Even now, I find that no matter what has happened, I still have that trust. I have a lot of trust, that people can be better than they are.
parent taught culture
My parents taught me service - not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.
buddhist believe free-spirit
I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire and enjoy it; that's my religion.
stubborn persons knows
I'm the most stubborn person I know.
united-states terrorist afghanistan
I was distressed that after 9/11, when the United States was attacked by terrorists, the United States' response was to attack Afghanistan, where some of the terrorists had been.
mirrors greed revolt
Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
outcast walks
Be an outcast. Be pleased to walk alone.
crime dissent originals
The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
understanding way triumph
Creation is a sustained period of bliss, even though the subject can still be very sad. Because there's the triumph of coming through and understanding that you have, and that you did it the way only you could do it. You didn't do it the way somebody told you to do it. You did it just the way you had to do it, and that is what makes us us.