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21 Jan, 2013
- Alice Walker
I suspect Ms. Walker's use of "frugally" in this sentence is meant to suggest the opposite.
Assignment: Today, be open to surprise, even if it feels uncomfortable.
Alice Malsenior Walker (born February 9, 1944) is an American author, poet, and activist. She has written both fiction and essays about race and gender. She is best known for the critically acclaimed novel The Color Purple (1982) for which she won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Walker was born in Eatonton, Georgia, the youngest of eight children, to Willie Lee Walker and Minnie Lou Tallulah Grant. Her father, who was, in her words, "wonderful at math but a terrible farmer," earned only $300 a year from sharecropping and dairy farming. Her mother supplemented the family income by working as a maid. She worked 11 hours a day for USD $17 per week to help pay for Alice to attend college.
Living under Jim Crow Laws, Walker's parents resisted landlords who expected the children of black sharecroppers to work the fields at a young age. A white plantation owner said to her that black people had “no need for education.” Minnie Lou Walker said, "You might have some black children somewhere, but they don’t live in this house. Don’t you ever come around here again talking about how my children don’t need to learn how to read and write.” Her mother enrolled Alice in first grade at the age of four.
When The Color Purple came
out in 1982, Walker became known to an even wider audience. Her Pulitzer Prize
and the movie by Steven Spielberg brought both fame and controversy. She was
widely criticized for negative portrayals of men in The Color Purple, though
many critics admitted that the movie presented more simplistic negative
pictures than the book's more nuanced portrayals.
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