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About Alice Walker
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.
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- “You cannot see the changes that you're dreaming about, because they're internal.”Alice Walker
- “Most damage that others do us is out of fear, humiliation and pain. Those feelings occur in all of us, not ju…”Alice Walker
- “What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.”Alice Walker
- “In the summer of 1966, I went to Mississippi to be in the heart of the civil-rights movement, helping people…”Alice Walker
Religion: more sayings
- “The essence of religion consists in the feeling of an absolute dependence.”Friedrich Schleiermacher
- “Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, som…”Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- “By diverting the Dionysian impulse into special rites on special days, the orgy kept it under control, preven…”Neel Burton
More Writing quotes
- “Writing is a lifelong disease. Once contracted, the only prescription is to write constantly in whatever form…”J.R. Tompkins
- “I learned reading and writing from my mother.”Sudha Murty
- “Although, from the point of view of sociology, the overt ambition of 'American Pastoral' - to imagine the imp…”Howard Jacobson
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Books by Alice Walker
The Color Purple
1983
By The Light of My Father's Smile
1998
The third life of Grange Copeland
1970
We are the ones we have been waiting for
2006
Meridian
1976