Alice Walker Quotes
When life descends into the pit I must become my own candle Willingly burning my self To light up the darkness around me.
Citations
Walker, Alice. Hard Times Require Furious Dancing. New World Library, 2010.
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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.