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'
