“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”

— Alice Walker · Friendship quote

“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”

— ALICE WALKER

Novelist & Poet · born 1944

American writer whose novel The Color Purple (1982) won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award. She coined the term womanist and helped revive interest in Zora Neale Hurston.

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