Alice Walker
Alice Walker
American author, activist, won National Book Award and first African-Woman to
win a Pulitzer Prize for
Fiction for The Color Purple
(1944 - )
"The animals of the world exist for their own reasons, they were not created for men anymore than black people were created for whites or women for men."
“I know, in my soul, that to eat a creature who is raised to be eaten,
and who never has a chance to be a real being, is unhealthy. It’s like...
you’re just eating misery. You’re eating a bitter life.”
“For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down
fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.”
“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to
grow.”
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t
have any.”
“Activism is my rent for living on the planet.”
“Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the
future you are dreaming.”
“Horses make a landscape look beautiful.”
