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The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn’t want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give ‘em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass. - Alice Walker Attribution: Alice Walker (b. 1944), U.S. author, critic. Pa, in The Color Purple, p. 155 (1983).

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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