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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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An Interview with Alice Walker

In this BBC interview, Pulitzer Prize–winning author, Alice Walker, describes a childhood experience and the thoughts it triggered about poverty, rage, oppression, sexism, and misogyny that has influenced her writing.

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Good Night, Willie Lee, I’ll See You in the Morning

Vivid poems of “breakdown and spiritual disarray.” Writing these, Walker says, “led me eventually into a larger understanding of the psyche, and of the world.” What finally marks this volume is the strong sense of change and, ultimately, of forgiveness as a part of growth.

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Alice Walker: Writing What’s Right

The author of The Color Purple (and one of America’s most censured writers) tells Megan Labrise about finding wisdom in the songs of ancestors, why her acclaimed novel won’t be translated into Hebrew, and approaching writing in a priestly state of mind.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageWe will never have to be other than who we are in order to be successful . . . We realize that we are as ourselves unlimited and our experiences valid. It is for the rest of the world to recognize this, if they choose.

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Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart: A Novel

The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Color Purple, Possessing the Secret of Joy, and The Temple of My Familiar now gives us a beautiful new novel that is at once a deeply moving personal story and a powerful spiritual journey.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageI am an expression of the divine, just like a peach is, just like a fish is. I have a right to be this way . . . I can’t apologize for that, nor can I change it, nor do I want to . . . .

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FindCenter Quotes ImageI 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.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageDeliver 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.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageThe animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageHard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.

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