Alice Walker
1944
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Quotes
Biography
Alice Walker is an American novelist, poet, and activist, best known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel 'The Color Purple'. Born in 1944 in Georgia, Walker grew up in a family of sharecroppers and became the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Throughout her career, she has been a voice for social justice and women's rights, often addressing issues of race, gender, and class in her works.
Famous Quotes (5)
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The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
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I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.
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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
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The most revolutionary thing a woman can do is not explain herself.
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Resistance is the secret of joy!