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
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HELPED are those who lose their fear of death; theirs is the power to envision the future in a blade of grass.
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HELPED are those whose ever act is a prayer for harmony in the Universe, for they are the restorers of balance to our planet. To them will be given the insight that every good act done anywhere in the cosmos welcomes the life of an animal or a child.
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Criticism is painful when it's not done with love.
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Dear God...I have always been a good girl. Maybe you can give me a sign letting me know what is happening to me.
prayer world depends
HELPED are those whose every act is a prayer for peace; on them depends the future of the world.
sincerely invited
Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited.
trust people matter
Even now, I find that no matter what has happened, I still have that trust. I have a lot of trust, that people can be better than they are.
surprise expecting
Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
fighting race opinion
In my opinion and experience, imperialists of all nations and races will tell us anything to keep us fighting. For them.
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My parents taught me service - not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.
confused greed humanity
Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer will we be an inarticulate and ignorant humanity, confused by our enslavement to superior cruelty and weaponry.
progress revolution
Progress' affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
healing done settling
Healing cannot be done by settling a score.
evil television world
My activism really is for myself, because I see places in the world where I feel I should be. If there is something really bad, really evil, happening somewhere, then that is where I should be. I need, for myself, to feel that I have stood there. It feels a lot better than just watching it on television.