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?
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.
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.
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.
stubborn persons knows
I'm the most stubborn person I know.
outcast walks
Be an outcast. Be pleased to walk alone.
offending
Once you feel loved by the universe, you're already accepted, and you're not really concerned about offending people.