Alice Walker

"My big complaint with myself is that I get tired. But, I forgive myself because it's human to get tired. But, I didn't always feel like I could forgive myself. There's a certain [drive], I think. But, now I feel like, "OK, you can be tired. People should let you be tired. Then you should go and take a nap, and you should sleep." That's about it."

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Alice Walker

Alice Walker

Novelist, Poet

Alice Walker is an American author and activist, best known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel 'The Color Purple,' which addresses themes of race, gender, and resilience.

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Alice Walker Novelist, Poet

"To acknowledge our ancestors means we are aware that we did not make ourselves, that the line stretches all the way back, perhaps to God; or to Gods. We remember them because it is an easy thing to forget: that we are not the first to suffer, rebel, fight, love and die. The grace with which we embrace life, in spite of the pain, the sorrow, is always a measure of what has gone before."

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