Alice Walker Quotes


We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that's going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.


Citations

Walker, Alice. Conversations with Alice Walker. Edited by Carmen Gillespie, University Press of Mississippi, 2010.

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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.