Alice Walker

"We have elders who [are] misguided and wallowing around in troughs of money with the wrong sort. They're not really good elders for the youth to emulate. The youth rightly don't like 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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