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.
attacked distressed terrorists united
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.
activism living rent
Activism is my rent for living on this planet.
criticize people praise prefer rather
I prefer to praise people and the world rather than criticize them and it.
creatures existence
We must begin seeing other creatures as equal. Existence makes us all equal.
wrote
My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig.
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.
cried cursed
I have fought and kicked and fasted and prayed and cursed and cried myself to the point of existing.
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.