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
Alice Walker quotes about
creative full mind
The creative mind is not a mind full of stuff.
destroyed money people power wonderful
This is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money and power and no empathy.
refuse wake
We have to wake up. We have to refuse to be a clone.
criticize people praise prefer rather
I prefer to praise people and the world rather than criticize them and it.
bombed citizens country iraq united until
How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house their country bombed in Iraq is the same one they were living in until it was foreclosed?
helping-others pay planets
Activism is the rent I pay for living on this planet.
technology men peaceful
The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.
saying-goodbye letting-you-go letting-go-and-moving-on
Even as I hold you, I am letting you go.
understanding movement literature
All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.
saved
Anything we love can be saved.
fear-of-death blades-of-grass loses
HELPED are those who lose their fear of death; theirs is the power to envision the future in a blade of grass.
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.
parent taught culture
My parents taught me service - not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.