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The original “crime” of “niggers” and lesbians is that they prefer themselves. - Alice Walker Attribution: Alice Walker (b. 1944), U.S. author, critic. repr. In In Search of our Mothers’ Gardens (1983). “Breaking Chains and Encouraging Life,” Ms. (New York, April 1980).

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Alice Walker

Titles by Alice Walker:

• Everyday Use
• Possessing the Secret of Joy
• Roselily
• The Color Purple
• The Flowers
• The Temple of My Familiar
• The Third Life of Grange Copeland

eNotes:

• From Victimization to Free Enterprise: Alice Walker's The Color Purple (The Color Purple)
• Alice Walker (Roselily)
• Alice Walker (Everyday Use)
• Patches: Quilts and Community in Alice Walker's "Everyday Use" (Everyday Use)
• Alice Walker's 'Everyday Use' (Everyday Use)
• Alice Walker (The Color Purple)

Salem on History:

• Alice Walker

Critical Companions:

• Walker, Alice (Feminism)

Encyclopedia:

• Walker, Alice (The Oxford Companion to English Literature)
• Walker, Alice [Malsenior] (The Oxford Companion to American Literature)

Salem on Literature:

• Alice Walker (Women’s Issues (Ready Reference series))
• Alice Walker (Critical Survey of Short Fiction)
• Alice Walker (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)
• Alice Walker (Magill’s Choice: American Ethnic Writers)
• Alice Walker (Dictionary of World Biography: The 20th Century)
• Alice Walker (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
• Alice Walker (Critical Survey of Poetry)
• Alice Walker (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)

Literary Criticism:

• Walker, Alice (Poetry Criticism)
• Walker, Alice (Vol. 19) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Walker, Alice (Vol. 9) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Walker, Alice (Vol. 6) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Walker, Alice (Vol. 5) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Walker, Alice (Vol. 103) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Walker, Alice (Vol. 27) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Walker, Alice (Contemporary Literary Criticism)

Calendar of Literary Facts:

• Alice Walker receives the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for The Color Purple
• Alice Walker publishes The Color Purple
• Alice Walker is born