“בעלי החיים בעולם קיימים בזכות עצמם. הם לא נוצרו למען בני האדם בדיוק כפי ששחורים לא נוצרו למען לבנים, ונשים לא נבראו למען גברים.”

American novelist, short story writer, poet, and social activist

Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, and social activist. In 1982, she became the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, for her novel The Color Purple. Her work spans novels, short stories, non-fiction, essays, and poetry. Walker is known for writing across these forms while also speaking from her role as an activist, with a career that has ranged widely across fiction and public life.