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
became covered essays events great inspired journalism poetry realized shy towards
For me, I used to be shy towards journalism because it wasn't poetry. And then I realized that the events that I covered in essays that became journalism were actually great because they inspired me, and they became my muse.
africa gone junior maybe published sophomore until wrote
I started writing as a child. But I didn't think of myself actually writing until I was in college. And I had gone to Africa as a sophomore or something - no, maybe junior - and wrote a book of poems. And that was my beginning. I published that book.
people
Some people are painters, and some are ballet dancers, and I'm a writer.
east
I don't feel I've had a decent critic ever on the East coast.
incredibly war
I think war is so incredibly backward, and I don't think it's intelligent, and it's not sane. So why would you want to support it?
since
I was brought up to try to see what was wrong and right it. Since I am a writer, writing is how I right it.
hard
It's very hard for our parents who see us enter a world that they can't imagine.
hard time
I cannot claim to have had a hard time publishing.
people
Can people who hunger so desperately for what other people have ever have enough?
act artists responsibility
Artists have a responsibility to speak and to act when governments fail, and if we don't do that, we really deserve the world we get.
criticize people praise prefer rather
I prefer to praise people and the world rather than criticize them and it.
american-author felt god
Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me.
creatures existence
We must begin seeing other creatures as equal. Existence makes us all equal.
behaviour cease children everywhere power
We must do everything in our power to cease the behaviour that makes children everywhere feel afraid.