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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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- “I love the natural world - it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.”Alice Walker
- “The mountain of despair has dwindled, and the stone of hope has size and shape, and can be fondled by the eye…”Alice Walker
- “Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.”Alice Walker
- “Even as I hold youI think of you as someone gonefar, far away. Your eyes the colorof pennies in a bowl of dar…”Alice Walker
Compassion: more sayings
- “When infused with compassion, even the most useless snake oils have the power to heal broken hearts and shatt…”Darren Main
- “Compassion does not just happen. Pity does, but compassion is not pity. It's not a feeling. Compassion is a v…”Glennon Doyle Melton
- “Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.”Henry Ward Beecher
More Wisdom quotes
- “If you desire to know or learn anything to your advantage, then take delight in being unknown and unregarded.…”Thomas à Kempis
- “Life may be a bed of roses, but roses still have thorns.”Matshona Dhliwayo
- “Information is nutrition, knowledge is nutrition, art is nutrition and they set us free. Internet is a great…”Baris Gencel
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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