![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Writing this three years before receiving the National Book Award and making history by becoming the first Black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for The Color Purple, Walker had envisioned freedom-personal, professional, and political-that was unimaginable to generations of Black writers, and to Black women generally, before her. To think the unthinkable.” Boldly concluding, “To dare to engage the world in a conversation it has not had before.”Īs a Black woman writer who has read almost every novel, poem, essay, or short story Walker has ever published, I found this entry in the new book Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker, 1965–2000, remarkable for its ambition and radical honesty. Walker’s answer was emphatic, as she wrote in her dark blue spiral notebook: “We want freedom. One time in 1980, a 36-year-old Alice Walker posed this question in her journal: “My God, what do black women writers want?” ![]()
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