“attempt to smear David Icke, and by association, me, is really an effort to dampen the effect of our speaking out in support of the people of Palestine”
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Alice Walker
Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker 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 essa…
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Born 9 February 1944 · Q215868
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2026· 5 entries
“I consider J.K. Rowling perfectly within her rights as a human being of obvious caring for humanity to express her views about whatever is of concern to her. As she has done.”
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“It would grieve me to know you are putting yourself in danger (soul danger) by performing in an apartheid country that is being boycotted by many global conscious artists.”
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“We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For”
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The Guardian: ‘I would draw blood’: Jemaine Clement and Nicola Walker’s wild wrongcom about sexual betrayal
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2024· 1 entry
The Guardian: The Color Purple review – off-note musical take on Alice Walker’s novel
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2023· 2 entries
MadameNoire: Alice Walker Slammed For Defending J.K. Rowling Trans Remarks
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Walker publicly defended J
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2022· 1 entry
Walker was disinvited from the Bay Area Book Festival due to what the organizers referred to as her "endorsement of anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist David Icke"
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2020· 1 entry
After learning about Walker's perceived support of antisemitism, the host of the New York Times podcast Sugar Calling described herself as "mortified" for having hosted Walker on her show and she also said: "If I'd known
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2019· 1 entry
Ayanna Pressley disavowed antisemitism after an uproar ensued following her tweeting of an Alice Walker quote
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2018· 3 entries
The Guardian: 'We’ve informed you': New York Times defends running Alice Walker's David Icke recommendation
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The Guardian: Alice Walker under fire for praise of 'antisemitic' David Icke book
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An interviewer from The New York Times Book Review asked Walker "What books are on your nightstand
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2017· 2 entries
UPI: Topic: Alice Walker
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Walker published a poem which she titled "It Is Our (Frightful) Duty to Study The Talmud", recommending that the reader should start with YouTube to learn about the allegedly shocking aspects of the Talmud, describing it
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2016· 1 entry
Awarded Carl Sandburg Literary Award (2016).
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2013· 2 entries
Alice Walker published two new books, one of them entitled The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way
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The Anti-Defamation League called anti-Zionist essays in Walker's book The Cushion in the Road "replete with fervently anti-Jewish ideas" and it also stated that Walker was "unabashedly infected with anti-Semitism"
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2011· 1 entry
Announced plans to participate in an aid flotilla to Gaza that attempted to break Israel's naval blockade
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2010· 1 entry
Awarded LennonOno Grant for Peace (2010).
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2007· 1 entry
Walker donated her papers, consisting of 122 boxes of manuscripts and archive material, to Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library
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2006· 1 entry
Awarded California Hall of Fame (2006).
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2003· 1 entry
International Women's Day, on the eve of the Iraq War, Walker was arrested with 26 others, including fellow authors Maxine Hong Kingston and Terry Tempest Williams, at a protest outside the White House, for crossing a po
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2000· 1 entry
Walker released a collection of short fiction, based on her own life, called The Way Forward Is With a Broken Heart, exploring love and race relations
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1997· 1 entry
Awarded Humanist of the Year (1997).
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1995· 2 entries
Awarded honorary degree from Spelman College (1995).
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Walker signed a "feminist writer's pledge" proclaiming the significance of feminist and lesbian presses, along with Jewelle Gomez, Tee Corinne, Dorothy Allison, and Blanche McCrary Boyd
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1994· 1 entry
To honor her mother, Minnie Tallulah Grant, and paternal grandmother, Tallulah
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1993· 1 entry
Alice Walker coauthored a novel, Warrior Marks, alongside feminist activist Pratibha Parmar
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1986· 1 entry
Awarded O. Henry Award (1986).
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1985· 1 entry
At the American Academy of Religion and the Society of Biblical Literature to address Black women's concerns from their own intellectual, physical, and spiritual perspectives
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1984· 3 entries
Awarded Lillian Smith Book Award for In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens (1984).
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“The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.”
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“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.”
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1983· 3 entries
Awarded Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Color Purple (1983).
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Awarded National Book Award for The Color Purple (1983).
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Walker coined the term womanist in her collection In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens, to mean "a Black feminist or feminist of color"
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1982· 3 entries
Awarded Candace Award (1982).
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Published what has become her best-known work, The Color Purple
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Became the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, which she was awarded for her novel The Color Purple
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1977· 1 entry
Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship (1977).
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1976· 2 entries
Walker and her husband divorced in 1976.
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Walker's second novel, Meridian, was published
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1973· 2 entries
Awarded Lillian Smith Book Award (1973).
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John O' Brien's 1973 interview with Walker offers further details.
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1967· 1 entry
In New York City, since interracial marriage was then illegal in the South, and divorced in 1976
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1965· 3 entries
In 1965, Walker met Melvyn Rosenman Leventhal, a Jewish civil rights lawyer.
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Walker met Melvyn Rosenman Leventhal, a Jewish civil rights lawyer
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Studied at Sarah Lawrence College, Bachelor of Arts (1965).
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1961· 2 entries
Studied at Spelman College (1961).
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After being granted a full scholarship by the state of Georgia for having the highest academic achievements of her class
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1944· 1 entry
Born 1944-02-09.
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