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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 met Howard Zinn in 1961, my first year at Spelman College in Atlanta. He was the tall, rangy, good-looking…”Alice Walker
- “I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire and enjoy it; that's…”Alice Walker
- “I've always felt quite singular, even as a child. That I must stay on track to keep my purpose.”Alice Walker
- “I was brought up to try to see what was wrong and right it. Since I am a writer, writing is how I right it.”Alice Walker
Silence: more sayings
- “If a man's imagination were not so weak, so easily tired, if his capacity for wonder not so limited, he would…”Edward Abbey
- “Silence is compliance, and not saying anything means you are okay with what is going on.”Porsha Williams
- “When Patrick finally broke his silence with 2008's 'Anthems For the Damned' - the first Filter album that he…”Andrew Shaffer
More Writing quotes
- “In writing the short novel Fahrenheit 451 I thought I was describing a world that might evolve in four or fiv…”Ray Bradbury
- “Kids are smart: don't underestimate their bull detector. Contemporary kids have access to a lot of informatio…”Isabel Allende
- “A lot of people will ask me “Whats depression like?”. Its the same answer every time. “Its shitty...”. But yo…”Brooke Janser (12-24)
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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