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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I love the women's movement, and I never thought of it as belonging to any particular segment of the population.
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Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams.
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I gave my archive to Emory University because there's a really dear friend who teaches there, Rudolph Byrd, and he's the editor.
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I've always felt quite singular, even as a child. That I must stay on track to keep my purpose.
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If you deny people their own voice, you'll have no idea of who they were.
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Meditation has been a loyal friend to me. It has helped me write my books.
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My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig.
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You have to give others the opportunity to love who you love. If they don't accept it, it's their loss.
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I advocate that every woman be a part of a circle, and a circle that meets at least once a month, or if you can't do that, once every two months or every four months.
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How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house their country bombed in Iraq is the same one they were living in until it was foreclosed?
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I see myself in all the people in the world who are suffering and who are very badly treated and who are often made to feel that they have no place on this Earth.
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I think Americans generally are not used to working very hard, in terms of working for the collective. I think in our country we have taken individualism to its farthest reaches, possibly.
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I think many people in my community had very different kinds of mothers: they had mothers who acquiesced in the system of male and white-supremacist domination, and my mother never did. She just could not do it. It just wasn't in her.
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I want the Israeli government to be made accountable for its behaviour to the Palestinians, and I want the people of the U.S. to cease acting as if they don't understand what is going on.