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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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- “No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”Alice Walker
- “Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.”Alice Walker
- “I advocate that every woman be a part of a circle, and a circle that meets at least once a month, or if you c…”Alice Walker
- “Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.”Alice Walker
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- “Music links us humans, heart to heart...Across time and space, and life and death.”Nancy Werlin
- “I've always been interested in people who think out of their time, and I have this passion, actually, for sci…”David Lagercrantz
- “I do not know what she was thinking, but I was remembering the years we have lived together, yet never togeth…”Gary Jennings
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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