Alice Walker Quotes
The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'
Topics
Child Care
Child Welfare
Emotional Development
The Most Important
Important Question
Child Safety
Childhood Anxiety
Childhood Education
Childhood Trauma
Emotional Response
Emotional State
Parent-Child Bonding
Parental Concern
Parental Responsibility
Understanding Emotions
emotional need
Child Comfort
Citations
Walker, Alice. We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness. The New Press, 2006.
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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.