Alice Walker

Alice Walker (1944-  ) is a poet, essayist, and novelist Alice who was born in Eatonton, Georgia, to sharecroppers Willie Lee and Minnie Lou Grant Walker. She earned a BA from Sarah Lawrence College. The author of numerous books, Walker is a feminist and vocal advocate for human rights, and she has earned critical and popular acclaim as a major American novelist and intellectual. 

Sometimes

Sometimes

who knows how?

the body & the soul 

come back 

together

again

the hand 

holding the pen

writes

not advertising

but heart.

Alice Walker from “Hard Times Require Furious Dancing'

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