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
literature world levels
All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.
peace children passion
The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'
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Every soul is to be cherished, every flower is to bloom.
want fiction world
Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.
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Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.
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What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.
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I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.
determination kindness prayer
the world has changed: it did not change without your prayers without your faith without your determination to believe in liberation and kindness; without your dancing through the years that had no beat.
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In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.
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Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
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Human compassion is equal to human cruelty, and it is up to each of us to tip the balance.
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Israel is guilty of apartheid and persecution of the Palestinian people, both inside Israel and also in the Occupied Territories.
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Healing begins where the wound was made.
animal sanctuary world
The Animals of the planet are in desperate peril and they are fully aware of this. No less than human beings are doing in all parts of the world, they are seeking sanctuary.