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The youngest daughter of sharecroppers, she grew up poor. Her mother worked as a maid to help support the family's eight children.

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"Walker was accidentally injured by a BB gun shot to her eye by her brother. Her partial blindness caused her to withdraw from normal childhood activities and begin writing poetry to ease her loneliness."

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" Three white men holding shotguns sat watching him, for niggers were not supposed to vote and they were there to enforce this common law.  My father voted for Roosevelt and a  “New Deal” he hoped would also apply to black people.

I come from a line of folks who chose to live or die on their feet.  My 4-Greats grandmother was forced to walk chained from a slave ship in Virginia, and carried two small children that probably weren’t hers all the way to Middle Georgia.  There she was forced to work for strange, pale people who could only have appeared to be demons to her.  She was given as a wedding gift to a young married couple when she was advanced in age; what the story of this event was is a mystery to this day. All we know is that she lived to bury all these people and that it is her who is remembered."-Alice walker

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"Fidel Castro is the most extraordinary person I have encountered, whether in real life, history, or fiction.  It is a gift to have been born in his time and to witness his nerve, intelligence, audacity, and wit.  He is a revolutionary in feeling as well as in thought."-Alice Walker

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"The unhappy truth is that I was left feeling a great deal of pain and loss and forced to think I had somehow brought it on myself,” Walker remembers. “It was very like a rape. It was the first time I abandoned myself, by lying, and is at the root of my fear of abandonment. It is also the root of my need to tell the truth, always, because I experienced, very early, the pain of telling a lie.”

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Walker made history as the fist African-American women to win a Pulitzer prize for literature as well as The National book award in 1983 for her novel.And was awarded the Lennon/Ono Grant for peace.

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Walker and Leventhal married in 1967. Two years later on November 17, 1969, their first and only child, Rebecca Grant, was born. Walker and Leventhal divorced in 1976.

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"All my life I had to fight. I had to fight my daddy. I had to fight my brothers. I had to fight my cousins and my uncles. A girl child ain't safe in a family of men. But I never thought I'd have to fight in my own house. She let out her breath. I loves Harpo, she say. God knows I do. But I'll kill him dead before I let him beat me.”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple