Alice Walker Quotes


I'm where I need to be, so my heart is light. Whatever happens, I know - I mean, I feel - that this is absolutely where I should be and I've lived up to my own expectations.


Citations

Walker, Alice. Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism. Random House, 1997.

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Alice Walker
Alice Walker
  • Born: February 9, 1944
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Novelist, Short Story Writer, Poet, Political Activist

Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, and social activist. In 1982, she published the novel The Color Purple, for which she won the National Book Award for hardcover fiction, and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. She also wrote the novels Meridian (1976) and The Third Life of Grange Copeland (1970). An avowed feminist, Walker coined the term womanist to mean "A black feminist or feminist of color" in 1983.