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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The creative mind is not a mind full of stuff.
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They were women then My mama's generation Husky of voice Stout of step With fists as well as Hands How they battered down Doors And ironed Starched white Shirts How they led Armies Headragged Generals Across mined Fields Booby trapped
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This is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money and power and no empathy.
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We have to wake up. We have to refuse to be a clone.
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I was distressed that after 9/11, when the United States was attacked by terrorists, the United States' response was to attack Afghanistan, where some of the terrorists had been.
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Activism is my rent for living on this planet.
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I grew up in the South under segregation. So, I know what terrorism feels like - when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn't look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. I mean, that's terrorism, too.
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Most damage that others do us is out of fear, humiliation and pain. Those feelings occur in all of us, not just in those of us who profess a certain religious or racial devotion.
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For me, I used to be shy towards journalism because it wasn't poetry. And then I realized that the events that I covered in essays that became journalism were actually great because they inspired me, and they became my muse.
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I think war is so incredibly backward, and I don't think it's intelligent, and it's not sane. So why would you want to support it?
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I was brought up to try to see what was wrong and right it. Since I am a writer, writing is how I right it.
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It's very hard for our parents who see us enter a world that they can't imagine.
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I prefer to praise people and the world rather than criticize them and it.
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We must begin seeing other creatures as equal. Existence makes us all equal.