Quotes by Alice Walker

About Alice Walker:

Alice Malsenior Walker is an American author and activist. She wrote the critically acclaimed novel The Color Purple (1982) for which she won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. She also wrote Meridian and The Third Life of Grange Copeland among other works.
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One child must never be set above another, even in casual conversation, not to mention in speeches that circle the globe.

Alice Walker

I prefer to praise people and the world rather than criticize them and it.

Alice Walker

Artists have a responsibility to speak and to act when governments fail, and if we don't do that, we really deserve the world we get.

Alice Walker

I started out as a poet. I've always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be fundamentally a poet who got into writing novels.

Alice Walker

I've always felt quite singular, even as a child. That I must stay on track to keep my purpose.

Alice Walker

Part of my ancestry is Cherokee. And in that tradition, you become an adult when you're 52.

Alice Walker

I just feel that 'The Color Purple,' which was my 10th book, was a true gift from my ancestors.

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Meditation has been a loyal friend to me. It has helped me write my books.

Alice Walker

My parents were both storytellers. They always spoke with metaphorical richness.

Alice Walker

It is important to remember yourself.

Alice Walker

We must begin seeing other creatures as equal. Existence makes us all equal.

Alice Walker

I don't generally read reviews.

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My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig.

Alice Walker

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

Alice Walker

You know, one race will not be a survivor if the other one dies, and that's something that we should think about.

Alice Walker

The fact is that when you do something from your heart, you leave a heart print.

Alice Walker

I gave my archive to Emory University because there's a really dear friend who teaches there, Rudolph Byrd, and he's the editor.

Alice Walker

At one point I learned transcendental meditation. This was 30-something years ago. It took me back to the way that I naturally was as a child growing up way in the country, rarely seeing people. I was in that state of oneness with creation and it was...

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Well, capitalism is a big problem, because with capitalism you're just going to keep buying and selling things until there's nothing else to buy and sell, which means gobbling up the planet.

Alice Walker

When I was 18, I went to the Soviet Union. I kept hearing that America was planning to bomb them - lots of bombs were going to come down on these people. I went there not knowing anything, except that I thought the whole thing was stupid and that I w...

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In the summer of 1966, I went to Mississippi to be in the heart of the civil-rights movement, helping people who had been thrown off the farms or taken off the welfare roles for registering to vote. While working there, I met the civil-rights lawyer ...

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Author Bio

  • NameAlice Walker
  • DescriptionAmerican author and activist
  • BornFebruary 9, 1944
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Poet; Novelist
  • WorksThe Color Purple
  • AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship; National Book Award; Lillian Smith Book Award; Lillian Smith Book Award; Humanist Of The Year