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Autora e ativista americana (nascida em 1944)
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Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker (born February 9, 1944) é uma romancista, contista, poetisa e ativista social americana. Em 1982, ela se tornou a primeira mulher afro-americana a ganhar o Prêmio Pulitzer de Ficção, que lhe foi concedido por seu romance The Color Purple. Ao longo de sua carreira, Walker publicou dezessete romances e coleções de contos, doze obras de não ficção e coleções de ensaios e poesia.
“The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites or women for men.”
“He has told me he likes men as well as he likes women, which seems only natural, he says, since he is the offspring of two sexes as well as two races. No one is surprised he is biracial; why should they be surprised he is bisexual? This is an explanation I have never heard and cannot entirely grasp; it seems too logical for my brain.”
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.”
“Activism is the rent I pay for living on the planet.”
“The harm that you do to others is the harm that you do to yourself and you cannot think then that you can cause wars in other parts of the world and destroy people and drone them without this having a terrible impact on your own soul and your own consciousness.”
“I think unless the people are given information about what is happening to them, they will die in ignorance. And i think that's the big sin. I mean if there is such a thing as a sin, that's it, to destroy people and not have them have a clue about how this is happening.”
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