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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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- “Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.”Alice Walker
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Silence: more sayings
- “Silence and tact may or may not be the same thing.”Samuel Butler
- “You cannot give up on the American dream. We cannot allow our fears and our disappointments to lead us into s…”Marco Rubio
- “There was silence in her head and silence beneath her window, and still she could not sleep.”Sarah Rees Brennan
Friendship: more sayings
- “For every hour a mother gets to herself, a father will demand five times that amount for drinking with friend…”Drew Magary
- “I have a daughter. I have my imagination. I have friends. I, in no way, am going to louse that up with some i…”Viv Albertine
- “Think about what it would mean to fight," he said. "Say we barricade ourselves here in the hotel and refuse t…”Jeanne DuPrau
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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