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
hard
It's very hard for our parents who see us enter a world that they can't imagine.
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.
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?
I never have an intended audience. I just write, you know.
I don't know if I've ever cared much what others think.
east
I don't feel I've had a decent critic ever on the East coast.
I cry so much less than I used to. I used to be one of the most teary people.
We should not look down on our first ancestors.
people
Some people are painters, and some are ballet dancers, and I'm a writer.
You don't always have to be doing something. You can just be, and that's plenty.
believe care hovering mother taking
I believe you mother everybody, not in a cloying, hovering way, but taking care of what is around you.
Nobody has ever convinced me that race is real.
cannot war
I'm very disappointed in Obama. I was very much in support of him in the beginning, but I cannot support war. I cannot support droning. I cannot support capitulating to the banks.
cities disaster far happily love moved nature people
I just think cities are unnatural, basically. I know there are people who live happily in them, and I have cities that I love, too. But it's a disaster that we have moved so far from nature.