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
My parents were both storytellers. They always spoke with metaphorical richness.
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I just feel that 'The Color Purple,' which was my 10th book, was a true gift from my ancestors.
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I deeply regret any harm, or any perceived harm, that I may have done to anyone by any behaviour of mine.
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When I was 18, I went to the Soviet Union. I kept hearing that America was planning to bomb them - lots of bombs were going to come down on these people. I went there not knowing anything, except that I thought the whole thing was stupid and that I wanted to see who these people were that we were going to bomb.
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I consider the fact that thousands of children die each day from starvation and a lack of medicine a crisis for humanity and a problem we must collectively attempt to solve.
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People really had a problem with my disinterest in submission. They had a problem with my intellect, and they had a problem with my choice of lovers. They had a problem with my choice of everything.
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I think 'The Color Purple' is so bursting with love, the need for connection, the showing of the need for connection around the globe.
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I wanted in my lifetime to vote for a radical Native American woman, since my vision of any future that we might have is that it will be led by women and older women.
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The dropping of bombs on people - isn't that terrorism?
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My family was a poor farming family, and we lived under absolute segregation.
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From infancy, I have relied on the fiercely sweet spirits of black men; and this is abundantly clear in my work.
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One child must never be set above another, even in casual conversation, not to mention in speeches that circle the globe.
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A good model of how to 'work with the enemy' internally is presented by the Dalai Lama, in his endless caretaking of his soul as he confronts the Chinese government that invaded Tibet.
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Sucking up to the biggies won't get us anywhere.