Alice Walker

"We are all substantially flawed, wounded, angry, hurt, here on Earth. But this human condition, so painful to us, and in someways shameful- because we feel we are weak when the reality of ourselves is exposed- is made much more bearable when it is shared, face to face, in words that have expressive human eyes behind them."

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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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