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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 feel very happy to be living in Berkeley because there are a lot of people who are politically active here.”Alice Walker
Explore Earth
- “On a per capita basis, Britain is responsible for more of the carbon dioxide now in the atmosphere than any o…”James Hansen
- “I contemplated man's little spark, what it should be valued before God alongside of this great work of heaven…”Jakob Böhme
- “I wrote a song called 'Here on Earth,' and the hook is, 'There's no answers here on earth.' Basically, search…”Dierks Bentley
Nature: more sayings
- “Nature is one great big wood-chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of bloo…”Douglas Coupland
- “Of course, accidents will happen in wild-folk families just as among us humans, only in a wild-folk family, a…”Samuel Scoville Jr.
- “Compassion is born from understanding suffering. We all should learn to embrace our own suffering, to listen…”Thich Nhat Hanh
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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