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
successful expression order
I am an expression of the divine, just like a peach is, just like a fish is. I have a right to be this way...I can't apologize for that, nor can I change it, nor do I want to... We will never have to be other than who we are in order to be successful...We realize that we are as ourselves unlimited and our experiences valid. It is for the rest of the world to recognize this, if they choose.
happiness success being-happy
Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.
saved
Anything we love can be saved.
creating soul creating-beauty
Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
friendship memorable real-friends
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
friendship fashion silence
no person is your friend (or kin) who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow and be perceived as fully blossomed as you were intended. Or who belittles in any fashion the gifts you labor so to bring into the world.
inspirational motivational positive
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
self light darkness
When life descends into the pit I must become my own candle Willingly burning my self To light up the darkness around me.
jobs self evil
The protection of evil must be the most self-destructive job.
again blackberry bush express happens metaphor nature organic particular pine producing self time
I think that I do feel that my nature is to express what this self, this particular self at this time, experiences in the world. And that is so organic - I use this metaphor a lot but I'll use it again - it's like a pine tree producing pine cones, or a blackberry bush producing blackberries - it's just what happens with this being, now.
I start each book when it's ready and never before.
people television stuff
I'm always amazed that people will actually choose to sit in front of the television and just be savaged by stuff that belittles their intelligence.
thinking foundation life-is
I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
again bone children collect future geniuses people sake throw thrown witnesses
A people do not throw their geniuses away. And if they are thrown away, it is our duty as artists and as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children and, if necessary, bone by bone.