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This can be taken to mean that grief and hope can sit side by side without cancelling each other out. The speaker reads as someone who knows loss deeply, yet also sees that life keeps changing and making room for return, adaptation, and surprise. It lands when things have gone badly, but a person is still able to notice a small, stubborn brightness in the fact that damage does not freeze everything forever.
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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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More Grief quotes
- “My granny was always mourning about the fact I wear dull, stained jeans or don't brush my hair.”Twinkle Khanna
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More Change quotes
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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