— Alice Walker, book The Color Purple
Source: The Color Purple
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.
— Alice Walker, book The Color Purple
Source: The Color Purple
„I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.“
Source: Revolutionary Petunias
„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)
„The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.“
As quoted in The Best Liberal Quotes Ever : Why the Left is Right (2004) by William P. Martin, p. 173.
— Alice Walker, book The Color Purple
Source: The Color Purple (1982)
— Alice Walker, book The Temple of My Familiar
Source: The Temple of My Familiar
„Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.“
Source: Hard Times Require Furious Dancing: New Poems
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.
— Alice Walker, book The Color Purple
Source: The Color Purple
„Activism is the rent I pay for living on the planet.“
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.“
— Alice Walker, book The Color Purple
Source: The Color Purple
„Time moves slowly, but passes quickly.“
— Alice Walker, book The Color Purple
Source: The Color Purple