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
tea picnics literature
Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.
saying-goodbye letting-you-go letting-go-and-moving-on
Even as I hold you, I am letting you go.
mom mother flawed
Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.
inspiring god religious
I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.
self-esteem literature week
Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.
lonely freedom fear
For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.
color america long
America is not nearly done. We're only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows... what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants - if they survive that long - will see.
daughter fathers-day dad
It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.
women famous-inspirational flower
It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.
understanding movement literature
All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.
life art book
Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.
impact time-on-earth world
How we come into this world, how we are ushered in, met, and hopefully embraced upon arrival, impacts the whole of our time on earth.
meaningful teaching circles
I don't know. I imagine good teaching as a circle of earnest people sitting down to ask each other meaningful questions. I don't see it as a handing down of answers...
literature world levels
All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.