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Alice Walker

Birthdate: 9. February 1944
Other names: ಆಲಿಸ್ ವಾಕರ್, آلیس واکر, ਅਲਾਇਸ ਵਾਕਰ

Alice Malsenior Walker is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, and activist. She wrote the critically acclaimed novel The Color Purple for which she won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. She also wrote the novels Meridian and The Third Life of Grange Copeland , among other works.

Photo: Virginia DeBolt, Alice Walker speaks / CC BY-SA 2.0

Works

The Color Purple

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In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose

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The Temple of My Familiar

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Possessing the Secret of Joy

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Quotes Alice Walker

„I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. People think pleasing God is all God cares about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.“

— Alice Walker, book The Color Purple

Source: The Color Purple

God, People, World, Fools

„Horses make a landscape look beautiful.“

— Alice Walker

Beauty, Horse

„What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.“

— Alice Walker

Fear, Understanding

„I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.“

— Alice Walker

Source: Revolutionary Petunias

Love, Learning, Heart, love

„We know a roofleaf is not Jesus Christ, but in its own humble way, is it not God?“

— Alice Walker, book The Color Purple

The Color Purple (1982)

God, Way, Christ

„The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.“

— Alice Walker

As quoted in The Best Liberal Quotes Ever : Why the Left is Right (2004) by William P. Martin, p. 173.

People, Way, Thinking, Leadership

„Any God I ever found in church, I brought in myself.“

— Alice Walker

God

„I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.“

— Alice Walker, book The Color Purple

Source: The Color Purple (1982)

God, Color, Thinking

„Be nobody's darling;
Be an outcast.
Take the contradictions
Of your life
And wrap around
You like a shawl,
To parry stones
To keep you warm.“

— Alice Walker

Life

„I'm mad about the waste that happens when people who love each other can't even bring themselves to talk.“

— Alice Walker, book The Temple of My Familiar

Source: The Temple of My Familiar

Love, People, Madness

„Even as I hold you, I am letting you go.“

— Alice Walker

Moving On

„No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.“

— Alice Walker

Silence, Personality, Deep, Friendship

„Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.“

— Alice Walker

Source: Hard Times Require Furious Dancing: New Poems

Time, Dance

„The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites or women for men.“

— Alice Walker

Foreword to The Dreaded Comparison: Animal Slavery and Human Slavery (1996) by Marjorie Spiegel, p. 14 http://books.google.com/books?ei=je4zTPjrBcmTnQfXmMCLBA&ct=result&id=8u_tAAAAMAAJ&dq=dreaded+comparison+%22exist+for+their+own%22&q=%22exist+for+their+own%22.

Women, Men, People, World

„Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book. If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.“

— Alice Walker

Books, Art, Way, Personality

„… have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show. Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. And I think all the other folks did too. They come to church to share God, not find God.“

— Alice Walker, book The Color Purple

Source: The Color Purple

God, Hope, Thinking

„Activism is the rent I pay for living on the planet.“

— Alice Walker

From the film poster for Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth.

„Everything want to be loved. Us sing and dance and holler, just trying to be loved.“