Alice Walker is an American author and activist. She wrote the critically acclaimed novel The Color Purple
for which she won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Creation is really a sustained period of bliss — even though the subject can still be very sad. Because there’s the triumph of coming through and understanding that you have, and that you did it the way only you could do it — you didn’t do it the way somebody told you to do it, you did it just the way you had to do it. And that is what makes us us.