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Alice Walker



Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker is an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, feminist, womanist, poet, and social activist. In 1982, she wrote the novel The Color Purple, for which she won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

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The Creative Journey: The Dalai Lama, Richard Gere, and Alice Walker

His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama, actor Richard Gere, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker came together at Emory University to discuss the arts and spirituality.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageIn nature, nothing is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways and they’re still beautiful.

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In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens

In this, her first collection of nonfiction, Alice Walker speaks out as a black woman, writer, mother, and feminist in thirty-six pieces ranging from the personal to the political.

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Profile: Alice Walker

"So in the end you can't even really regret your misfortunes," explains the beloved author Alice Walker, "because they led you somewhere." Walker speaks from experience.

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Arundhati Roy with Alice Walker and David Barsamian—Part 1

This is Part 1 where Alice Walker gives a lengthy and elegant introduction to Arundhati Roy.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageSome periods of our growth are so confusing that we don’t even recognize that growth is happening.

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More About the Great Mother Archetype

A segment taken from Women of Tibet: Gyalyum Chemo in which Dr.

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Alice Walker, Broken Things

Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize winner and internationally known Georgia-born author and activist, opened her archives at Emory University in April 2009. The event was celebrated by an exhibition, a symposium and a presentation by Alice Walker.

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Overcoming Speechlessness: A Poet Encounters the Horror in Rwanda, Eastern Congo, and Palestine/Israel

In 2006, Alice Walker, working with Women for Women International, visited Rwanda and the eastern Congo to witness the aftermath of the genocide in Kigali.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageLook closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.

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