The Color Purple - More Than Meets the Eye
The bitter legacy of American race relations - birthed by slavery, worsened by segregation and institutionalized by culture - is not without hope, a radiant sense that, within the collective rage of an entire group's forced servitude, there is also the strength - the heroism and personal triumph, if you will - to stand squarely upon the soil and proclaim, "No more!" Alice Walker, a gifted novelist with a keen appreciation of the black experience, articulates this sense of freedom and its female identity with passion and integrity. "The Color Purp…
