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Alice Walker

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Also known as Alice Malsenior Walker, Alice Walker Leventhal, Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker

American author and activist (born 1944)

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Alice Walker is an American author born on February 9, 1944. Her literary output includes 199 works, with notable titles such as *Five poems*, *Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Gold Level*, and *Troilus & Cressida*. She has been recognized in the American Academy Arts Sciences collection and the Pulitzer Prize collection. Walker’s writings have been referenced by 889 other encyclopedia articles.

Her official website is alicewalkersgarden.com. Among her recorded statements are the observations that “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any” and that “Activism is the rent I pay for living on the planet.”

A separate musical artist named Alice Walker is identified as a male person from the United States. This artist performs in genres including blues, electric blues, electric texas blues, jazz and blues, and texas blues. The musical act has accumulated 47,490 plays and 1,824 listeners, with tags such as folk, indie, dark cabaret, and cabaret.

Synthesized by Vinony from 22 facts across 8 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, Wikiquote, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Born
1944
Works
199

Top works

  • Five poems
  • Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Gold Level
  • Prentice Hall Literature
  • Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Gold
  • Troilus & Cressida

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United States
Active from
1910-05-28
Active to
1975-03-16
blueselectric blueselectric texas bluesjazz and bluestexas blues

Discography

DiscogsStream

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
1,832
Total plays
47,751

Tags

indiefolkdark cabaretcabaret

Similar artists

AlicebandThe Roaring Girl CabaretScarlet RoomThe Scarring PartyThe Tragic Tantrum

Alice Walker is a singer songwriter from a small town in Essex. Her songs are about love, and life, and dead things and live things. When she grows up she wants to be a mountain. She sometimes plays with a band, called AlicebanD. The big D makes the word look symmetrical, which makes her feel balanced. They have played in big venues and small venues and festivals and parties, and want to play at bigger places like palaces and castles.. They've actually played in a castle. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Alice+Walker">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Using <b>lme4</b>

    · 2015 · cited 76,010x

  2. A global reference for human genetic variation

    · 2015 · cited 17,797x

  3. Mixed effects models and extensions in ecology with R

    · 2009 · cited 12,787x

  4. Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger

    · 2016 · cited 11,706x

  5. A safe operating space for humanity

    · 2009 · cited 9,720x

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Quotes

  • “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.”
  • “I felt in Georgia and on the east coast generally very squeezed. People have so many hang-ups about how other people live their lives. People always want to keep you in a little box or they need to label you and fix you in time and location. I feel a greater fluidity here. People are much more willing to accept that nothing is permanent, everything is changeable so there is freedom and I do need to live where I can be free.”
  • “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.”

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Encyclopedic overview

Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker (born February 9, 1944) is 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.

Walker, born in rural Georgia, overcame challenges such as childhood injury and segregation to become high school valedictorian and graduate from Sarah Lawrence College. She began her writing career with her first book of poetry, Once, and later wrote novels, including her best-known work, The Color Purple. As an activist, Walker participated in the Civil Rights Movement, advocated for women of color through the term "womanism," and has been involved in animal advocacy and pacifism. Additionally, she has taken a strong stance on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, supporting the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign against Israel.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Alice Walker” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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