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Alice Walker: Inspires by Carmen Knight
known as the best novel of this generation, but one that set the boundaries. This novel is now a requirement reading in most schools across the nation. She has published several novels such as The Temple of My Familiar( 1989) and Possessing the Secret of Joy( 1992).
Recently, She has published Now Is The Time to Open Your Heart( 2004) and a collection of essays called We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For: Light in a Time of Darkness, and the well-received praises picture book There Is a Flower at the Tip of My Nose Smelling Me. She has also written a letter to President Obama that was published online by The Root called“ An Open Letter to Barack Obama” in November 2008. She continues to make ways with not only in her writing but also as an activist.
Alice Walker is one of the worlds leading historians of our generation. She has inspired many to dream and has influenced many lives in chasing their dreams and making those dreams possible.
Alice was born on February 9th, 1944 from Eatonton, Georgia. She is not only an Activist and an Author but has worked as a teacher, social worker, and a lecturer. In the 1960’ s she took part in the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi and won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel, The Color Purple in 1983.
Her third novel The Color Purple made it to the big screen directed by Steven Spielberg, which Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey and Danny Glover starred. The movie received 11 Academy Award nominations three years later and became a success. Her novel The Color Purple not only became worldly
As a young aspiring writer, Alice Walker has been an inspiration since I was only 10 years old. I was given the assignment to write a report on the First African American Published Author. As I read her magnificent story of not only being a writer but as an activist, she inspired me to write and that it mattered to get your voice heard. She has become an inspiration to many people around the world and continues to do so to help create change in the world.
We are all working for a wonderful change and Alice Walker is among many. Are you one of them?
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