Alice Walker
(born February 9, 1944) Walker, an African American author and feminist, wrote the novel The Color Purple. It was awarded both the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award. She is well known as an outspoken individual regarding women's rights, race, sexuality, and the importance of culture.
- "In Search of Our Mother's Gardens" (1983)
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““Must a name mean something?” Alice asked doubtfully.
“Of course it must,” Humpty Dumpty said with a short laugh: “my name means the shape I am—and a good handsome shape it is, too. With a name like yours, you might be any shape, almost.””
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“When and where will another come to take your holy place?
Old man mumbling in his dotage, or crying child, unborn?”
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