Alice Walker

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1944 age 0

   Born

2. 1985 age 41

   CreditThe Color Purplescreenwriter

• LFLaurence Fishburne1 title
• SSSteven Spielberg1 title
• KKKathleen Kennedy1 title
• MKMichael Kahn1 title
• DGDanny Glover1 title
• FMFrank Marshall1 title
• HJHawthorne James1 title
• ADAllen Daviau1 title
• MMMenno Meyjes1 title
• DIDana Ivey1 title

• Partner

  • TCTracy Chapman

Nothing recorded for: Spouse, Parents, Children, Siblings, Influenced by, Studied under, Taught.

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  Photo:Liberty Media for Women, LLCCC BY-SA 4.0

• 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.

  Alice Walker, CC BY-SA 4.0

• 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.

  Alice Walker, CC BY-SA 4.0

• 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.

  Alice Walker, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Her publisher and the Library of Congress identify her as living in Northern California/Mendocino, California.

  Alice Walker, CC BY-SA 4.0

• The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

  Alice Walker, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Activism is the rent I pay for living on the planet.

  Alice Walker, CC BY-SA 4.0