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
behaviour cease government israeli people understand
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.
since stake time witch
Since the time of the witch burnings, the grandmothers and the healers and the midwives have been systematically targeted. And burned at the stake for hundreds of years, decimating whole communities.
life
I live a very secluded life, a very contemplative life and a very meditative one. That is my ideal life.
areas good
I think all documentaries leave out areas of people's lives. Which is good. There are areas that need not be explored.
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Activism is the rent I pay for living on this planet.
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The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.
cried cursed
I have fought and kicked and fasted and prayed and cursed and cried myself to the point of existing.
peace war giving
War will stop when we no longer praise it, or give it any attention at all. Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited.
children believe dust
It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put - without delay, and with tenderness - back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try.
giving-up spring flower
As long as the Earth can make a spring every year, I can. As long as the Earth can flower and produce nurturing fruit, I can, because I'm the Earth. I won't give up until the Earth gives up.
self way enlightened
Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.
life dance flower
Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?
spiritual believe animal
The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen.
years able richness
She thought of how precious it was to be able to know another person over many years. There was incomparable richness in it.