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Alice Malsenior Walker ist eine US-amerikanische Schriftstellerin und politische Aktivistin. International bekannt wurde sie vor allem als Autorin des Romans Die Farbe Lila, der 1983 mit dem American Book Award und dem Pulitzer-Preis ausgezeichnet und 1985 von Steven Spielberg verfilmt wurde. Sie zählt neben Toni Morrison, Alex Haley, Maya Angelou und August Wilson zu den bedeutendsten Vertretern der afroamerikanischen Literatur. Wikipedia  

✵ 9. Februar 1944  •  Andere Namen ಆಲಿಸ್ ವಾಕರ್, آلیس واکر, ਅਲਾਇਸ ਵਾਕਰ
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“Helped are those who are content to be themselves; they will never lack mystery in their lives and the joys of self-discovery will be constant.”

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Alice Walker buch The Temple of My Familiar

Quelle: The Temple of My Familiar

“When life descends into the pit
I must become my own candle
Willingly burning my self
To light up the darkness around me.”

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Alice Walker

“Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.”

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Alice Walker buch In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose

Quelle: In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose

“Never offer your heart
to someone who eats hearts
who finds heartmeat
delicious
but not rare
who sucks the juices
drop by drop
and bloody-chinned
grins
like a God.”

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Alice Walker

“She was so quiet. So reflective. And she could erase herself, her spirit, with a swiftness that truly startled, when she knew the people around her could not respect it.”

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Alice Walker

“The more I wonder, the more I love.”

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Alice Walker buch The Color Purple

Quelle: The Color Purple

“Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.”

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Alice Walker

Quelle: Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology

“I'm pore, I'm black, I may be ugly and can't cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I'm here.”

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Alice Walker buch The Color Purple

Quelle: The Color Purple

“Surely the earth can be saved
by all the people
who insist
on love.”

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Alice Walker

Quelle: Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful: Poems

“Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to get attention we do, except walk?”

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Alice Walker buch The Color Purple

Quelle: The Color Purple (1982)

“Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.”

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Alice Walker buch The Color Purple

Quelle: The Color Purple

“(a womanist)

3. Loves music. Loves dance. Loves the moon. Loves the Spirit. Loves love and food and roundness. Loves struggle. Loves the Folk. Loves herself. Regardless.”

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Alice Walker buch In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose

Quelle: In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose

“She thought of how precious it was to be able to know another person over many years. There was incomparable richness in it.”

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Alice Walker

“What you hope for, you also fear.”

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Alice Walker buch The Temple of My Familiar

Quelle: The Temple of My Familiar

“Every time I conjure up a rock, I throw it.”

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Alice Walker buch The Color Purple

Quelle: The Color Purple

“Who am I to tell her who to love? My job just to love her good and true myself. P. 237”

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Alice Walker buch The Color Purple

Quelle: The Color Purple

“I don't know. I imagine good teaching as a circle of earnest people sitting down to ask each other meaningful questions. I don't see it as a handing down of answers…”

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Alice Walker

“Like I said… fine with me.”

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Alice Walker buch The Color Purple

Quelle: The Color Purple

“The world is changing, I said. It is no longer a world just for boys and men.”

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Alice Walker buch The Color Purple

The Color Purple (1982)

“I'm always amazed that people will actually choose to sit in front of the television and just be savaged by stuff that belittles their intelligence.”

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Alice Walker

“it is this broken road with pitfalls and sharp turns and unexpected traverses that has brought me joy and adventure.”

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Alice Walker

“I believe God is everything, say Shug. Everything that is or ever was or ever will be. And when you can feel that, and be happy to feel that, you've found It.”

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Alice Walker buch The Color Purple

Quelle: The Color Purple

“Some people don't understand that it is the nature of the eye to have seen forever, and the nature of the mind to recall anything that was ever known.”

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Alice Walker buch The Temple of My Familiar

Quelle: The Temple of My Familiar

“And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.”

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“We do not believe in heaven or hell…; we do not believe in eternal damnation. We believe only in the unavoidable horror of hurting others and of likewise being hurt.”

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Alice Walker

Quelle: By The Light Of My Father's Smile

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