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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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- “At one point I learned transcendental meditation. This was 30-something years ago. It took me back to the way…”Alice Walker
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Explore Earth
- “You have come to earth to entertain and to be entertained.”Paramahansa Yogananda
- “We are all guests on this earth. We come and we go. All of us. The oppressors and the oppressed, the weak and…”Jana Kotaishová
- “I'm feeling in the earth a massive shift, in especially female consciousness, that is... slightly different t…”Brigette Lundy-Paine
Art: more sayings
- “My heart balloons with admiration for these talented artists, which I so desperately want to be”Vicki Alayne Bradley
- “I enjoyed the thought that hovering behind my work is a unifying belief system, just as there is behind Egypt…”Grayson Perry
- “The artist says to the cosmos: All I ask is infinite love-is that so very wrong? And the cosmos doesn't even…”John Lanchester
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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