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Alice Walker is a renowned American author born on February 9, 1944. Her works are known for their profound social criticism and feminist ideas, with notable titles including 'The Color Purple' and 'Beloved'.

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“I think mothers and daughters are meant to give birth to each other, over and over; that is why our challenges to each other are so fierce; that is why, when love and trust have not been too badly blemished or destroyed, the teaching and learning one from the other is so indelible and bittersweet. We daughters must risk losing the only love we instinctively feel we can't live without in order to be who we are, and I am convinced this sends a message to our mothers to break their own chains, though they may be anchored in prehistory and attached to their own great grandmothers' hearts.”

“I think that indigenous women's wisdom is crucial. So much of the care of the Earth has come from the mothers. I think it's imperative we turn to their wisdom in how to take care of the planet.”

Thinking Care Earth Mother Turns Planets Take Care Crucial Indigenous Imperatives

Author:Alice Walker

“The forest is the first cathedral. I felt that from the time I was a child. I credit my mother with that. I used to think it came from her Native-American side. Whichever it was, she instinctively connected with nature, and taught me that.”

Thinking Firsts Children Used Mother Felt Sides Taught Connected Credit Forests Native Native American Cathedrals

Author:Alice Walker

“My writing is very organic. It's what I am. My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig. So I think of it as something that's very essential to my being.”

Thinking Writing Mother Essentials Dirt Crawling Twigs

Author:Alice Walker

“I feel I am a child that's lost its mother. I feel like a calf whose mother has gone off to slaughter.”

Feels Children Mother Lost Gone Slaughter Calves

Author:Alice Walker

Thinking Children Spirit Mother Church

Author:Alice Walker

“Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.”

I Can Mother Mom Motherhood Flawed Greatest Gifts

Book:Possessing the Secret of Joy

Source: Possessing the Secret of Joy

“In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.”

Mother Found My Own Discovery Garden Parenting Self Discovery Gardening Gardening And God Pulling Weeds

Author:Alice Walker

“And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.”

Mother Family Creativity Creative Flower Letters Parenting Motherhood Seeds Grandmother Sparks Mothering Great Mother Mother And Grandmother Creative Spark

Book:Everyday Use

Source: Everyday Use

“How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.”

Knows Seems Mother Names Simple Inspiring Motherhood Judaism

Author:Alice Walker

“My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father's head. It taught me about women defending themselves and not collapsing in a heap.”

Mother Father Strong Taught Very Strong Coconuts

Author:Alice Walker

“To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.”

People Enough Mother Literature Black Essentials Despair Hatred Our Future Black Women

Book:The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction

Source: The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction

“The Olinka girls do not believe girls should be educated. When I asked a mother why she thought this, she said: A girl is nothing to herself; only to her husband can she become something. What can she become? I asked. Why, she said, the mother of his children. But I am not the mother of anybody's children, I said, and I am something.”

Should Believe Children Said Mother Girl Husband Educated

Book:El color púrpura

Source: El color púrpura

“Our mothers and grandmothers ... moving to music not yet written.”

Moving Mother Written Grandmother Grandparent Grandma Grandpa Mother And Grandmother

Author:Alice Walker

“My mother had handed down respect for the possibilities...and the will to grasp them.”

Mother Possibility Daughter Mother And Daughter

Book:Everyday Use

Source: Everyday Use

“Guided by my heritage of a love of beauty and a respect for strength - in search of my mother's garden, I found my own.”

Mother Found My Own Garden Heritage

Book:Everyday Use

Source: Everyday Use

“No song or poem will bear my mother's name. Yet so many of the stories that I write, that we all write, are my mother's stories.”

Writing Stories Mother Song Names Bears Motherhood

Book:Everyday Use

Source: Everyday Use

“... my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.”

Mother House Flower Shabby

Book:Everyday Use

Source: Everyday Use

About the Author

Born: February 9, 1944
Known for: Author
Quotes: 527

Books & Sources

The Color PurpleRelated source material

Taking the Arrow Out of the HeartRelated source material

The Alice Walker Collection: Non-FictionRelated source material

The Temple of My FamiliarRelated source material

The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's WayRelated source material

The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice WalkerRelated source material

Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's ActivismRelated source material

El color púrpuraRelated source material

Everyday UseRelated source material

In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist ProseRelated source material

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