Alice Walker

Also known as Alice Malsenior Walker, Alice Walker Leventhal, Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker

American author and activist (born 1944)

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Alice Walker is an American author and activist born in 1944, best known for her novels and essays that explore themes of race, gender, and social justice. Her work has profoundly influenced American literature and culture by giving voice to the experiences of African American women and marginalized communities.

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Born: 1944
Works: 199

Top works

Five poems
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Troilus & Cressida

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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: United States
Active from: 1910-05-28
Active to: 1975-03-16

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Discography

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Listeners: 1,832
Total plays: 47,751

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5 total works indexed

Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Using <b>lme4</b>
· 2015 · cited 73,410x
A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,413x
Mixed effects models and extensions in ecology with R
· 2009 · cited 12,598x
Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
· 2016 · cited 11,443x
A safe operating space for humanity
· 2009 · cited 9,457x

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Quotes

“The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites or women for men.”
“He has told me he likes men as well as he likes women, which seems only natural, he says, since he is the offspring of two sexes as well as two races. No one is surprised he is biracial; why should they be surprised he is bisexual? This is an explanation I have never heard and cannot entirely grasp; it seems too logical for my brain.”
“I felt in Georgia and on the east coast generally very squeezed. People have so many hang-ups about how other people live their lives. People always want to keep you in a little box or they need to label you and fix you in time and location. I feel a greater fluidity here. People are much more willing to accept that nothing is permanent, everything is changeable so there is freedom and I do need to live where I can be free.”
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.”
“Activism is the rent I pay for living on the planet.”
“The harm that you do to others is the harm that you do to yourself and you cannot think then that you can cause wars in other parts of the world and destroy people and drone them without this having a terrible impact on your own soul and your own consciousness.”

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Official website: www.alicewalkersgarden.com
Image: Alice Walker 2009 (facecrop).jpg

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Commons category: Alice Walker
date of birth: 1944-02-09
birth name: Alice Malsenior Walker

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Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker (born February 9, 1944) is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, and social activist. In 1982, she became the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, which she was awarded for her novel The Color Purple. Over the span of her career, Walker has published seventeen novels and short story collections, twelve non-fiction works, and collections of essays and poetry.

Walker, born in rural Georgia, overcame challenges such as childhood injury and segregation to become high school valedictorian and graduate from Sarah Lawrence College. She began her writing career with her first book of poetry, Once, and later wrote novels, including her best-known work, The Color Purple. As an activist, Walker participated in the Civil Rights Movement, advocated for women of color through the term "womanism," and has been involved in animal advocacy and pacifism. Additionally, she has taken a strong stance on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, supporting the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign against Israel.