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American Novelist, Short Story Writer, Poet, Social Activist, and in 1982, she became the First African-American Woman to Win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
: An American novelist, short story writer, poet, and social activist. In 1982, she became the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, which she was awarded for her novel The Color Purple. Over the span of her career, Walker has published seventeen novels and short story collections, twelve non-fiction works, and collections of essays and poetry. (From: Wikipedia.org.)
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Quote #12 on Education Struggle Quotes >> Learning and Authority
“Man only truly lives by knowing; otherwise he simply performs, copying the daily habits of others, but conceiving nothing of his creative possibilities as a man, and accepting someone else's superiority and his own misery.”
Source: "The Civil Rights Movement: What Good Was It?," an essay by Alice Walker, written in the Winter of 1966-1967. Quoted from The Portable Sixties Reader, edited by Ann Charters, a Penguin Classics, pages 82-83. Pages 82-83.
What Good Was It?
: "The Civil Rights Movement: What Good Was It?," an essay by Alice Walker, written in the Winter of 1966-1967. Quoted from The Portable Sixties Reader, edited by Ann Charters, a Penguin Classics, pages 82-83.
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