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
hard-times dancing proof
Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
hatred way
There is no graceful way to carry hatred.
long accommodations term
The long-term accommodation that protects marriage and other such relationships is ... forgetfulness.
strong-women way fine
Just be what it is that you are, and that is just fine. You don't have to be what you're not in any way. Live that and live that fully, and that is where you discover ecstasy. You can't really have ecstasy as something other than yourself
self twins natural
Always with me was the inner twin: my true nature, my true self. It is timeless, free, compassionate and in love with whatever is natural to me
falling-in-love imagination free-spirit
I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.
dream inspirational-love race
Whenever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared. I have been helped, supported, encouraged and nurtured by people of all races, creeds, colors and dreams.
realizing values
As I get older, I realize that the thing I value the most is good-heartednes s.
thank-you thanksgiving thankful
'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say.
education ignorance racism
Ignorance, arrogance, and racism have bloomed as Superior Knowledge in all too many universities.
struggle moon spirit-love
(a womanist) 3. Loves music. Loves dance. Loves the moon. Loves the Spirit. Loves love and food and roundness. Loves struggle. Loves the Folk. Loves herself. Regardless.
self light darkness
When life descends into the pit I must become my own candle Willingly burning my self To light up the darkness around me.
god experience possibility
The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.
eye people forever
Some people don't understand that it is the nature of the eye to have seen forever, and the nature of the mind to recall anything that was ever known.