1. Alice Walker, ‘Writing The Color Purple,’ In Search of our Mothers’ Gardens (London: Women’s Press, 1984), p. 355.
2. Sharon Wilson, ‘A Conversation with Alice Walker,’ in Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Kwame Anthony Appiah (eds), Alice Walker: Critical Perspectives Past and Present, Amistad Library Series (New York: Amistad Press, 1993), p. 325.
3. Walker, The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult (New York: Scribner, 1996), p. 163.
4. Gloria Steinem, ‘Alice Walker: Do You Know This Woman? She Knows You,’ Ms. (June 1982) in Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions, 2nd edn (New York: Owl-Holt, 1995), p. 292.
5. Robert Towers, ‘Good Men Are Hard to Find,’ review of The Terrible Twos by Ishmael Reed and The Color Purple by Alice Walker, New York Review of Books 29.13 (12 Aug. 1982), p. 36.