Alice Walker
Alice Malsenior Walker (born February 9, 1944) is an American author, poet, and activist. She has written both fiction and essays about race and gender. She is best known for the critically acclaimed novel The Color Purple (1982) for which she won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.
Read more about Alice Walker: Early Life, Activism, Personal Life, Writing Career, Selected Awards and Honors
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“All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.”
—Alice Walker (b. 1944)
“Penny: Grandpa found the cutest place near where Alice is, right on the ocean.
Paul: Lake, Penny. Lake.
Penny: That’s what I said. Lake. We’re gonna invite you all up to go deep sea fishing.”
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“All you violated ones with gentle hearts;
You violent dreamers whose cries shout heartbreak;”
—Margaret Abigail Walker (b. 1915)