Who is Alice Walker

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.

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Alice Malsenior Walker was born in Eatonton, Georgia, a rural farming town, to Willie Lee Walker and Minnie Tallulah Grant. Both of Walker's parents were sharecroppers, though her mother also worked as a seamstress to earn extra money. Walker, the youngest of eight children, was first enrolled in school when she was just fo...
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Lexi_caly: people like alice walker and bell hooks show their ass 30 years after their heyday and everyone is confused, meanwhile all the black scholars that actually lean into real radical thought are like
Crewcrew: breaking: the nra has fired its compliance staffer after the fec noted it failed to disclose hundreds of thousands of dollars spent to elect herschel walker
Anjijoy: as a black person and a woman i don't read history for facts, i read it for clues.’ alice walker, quoted by maud sulter, in zabat.
Fendiquor: duckie thot for tim walker’s pirelli calendar (2018). alice in wonderland.
Fendiquor: tim walker’s alice in wonderland ensemble for pirelli calendar
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Ballade Of The Midnight Forest
 by Andrew Lang

Still sing the mocking fairies, as of old,
Beneath the shade of thorn and holly-tree;
The west wind breathes upon them, pure and cold,
And wolves still dread Diana roaming free
In secret woodland with her company.
'Tis thought the peasants' hovels know her rite
When now the wolds are bathed in silver light,
And first the moonrise breaks the dusky grey,
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