Alice+Walker

= = **__Alice Walker__** By: Collin, Meeyana, & Tommy = = __ **Facts about her:** __ - Born in 1944, Feb. 9 in Eatonton, Georgia. - She was the 8th and last child of Willie Lee and Minnie Lou Grant Walker. - She is African American. - Married Mel Leventhal on March 17, 1967. - In 1969 her daughter, Rebecca Walker, was born. - In 1974 she became a contributing editor. - Awarded a B.A. degree. - In 1982 she became a professor. - She wrote about black and white's freedom. - In 1983 she won a award for The Color Purple. - Alice has won many awards and honors.

 __** Alice's Poems **__ - WHY? - Life's Not Fair - I said to poetry <span style="color: #0fc606; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">- Gray <span style="color: #0fc606; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">- Jesus loves you <span style="color: #0fc606; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">- Expect Nothing <span style="color: #0fc606; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">- A poem <span style="color: #0fc606; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">- When Golda Meir was in Africa <span style="color: #0fc606; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">- Love god <span style="color: #0fc606; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">- The Old Man Used to Sing

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__ **We Alone** __ <span style="color: #8f0424; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">We alone can devalue gold <span style="color: #8f0424; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">by not caring <span style="color: #8f0424; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">if it falls or rises <span style="color: #8f0424; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">in the marketplace <span style="color: #8f0424; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">Wherever there is gold <span style="color: #8f0424; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">there is a chain, you know, <span style="color: #8f0424; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">and if your chain <span style="color: #8f0424; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">is gold <span style="color: #8f0424; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">so much the worse <span style="color: #8f0424; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">for you.

<span style="color: #8f0424; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">Feathers, shells, <span style="color: #8f0424; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">sea-shaped stones <span style="color: #8f0424; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">are all as rare.

<span style="color: #8f0424; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">This could be our revolution: <span style="color: #8f0424; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">To love what is plentiful <span style="color: #8f0424; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">as much as <span style="color: #8f0424; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">what is scarce.

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__ ** Work Cited ** __ Meeyana's : Various, First. //We Alone//. Vol 8. Evanston: Houghton Mofflin Company, 2008. pg 608. Print. Lin Jaunhui. Woodpecker Feather?. 2008. Photograph. Ashira.Web. 18 Dec 2011. <www.google.com/imghp?hl=en&tab=wi>.

Sea-shaped stones. 2008. Photograph. Quotes to Live By.Web. 18 Dec 2011. <www.google.com/imghp?hl=en&tab=wi>.

Ocean Sunset Wallpaper. 2011. Photograph. Quotes to Live By.Web. 18 Dec 2011. <www.google.com/imghp?hl=en&tab=wi>.

Alice Walker. 2011. Photograph. NNDB: tracking the entire world, Soylent Collections. Web. 18 Dec 2011. <www.google.com/imghp?hl=en&tab=wi>.

"Alice Walker." //AfroPoets.Net//. 2003-2007. Web. 20 Dec. 2011. <http://www.afropoets.net/alicewalker.html>.

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