Oct 21 : Movie based on a Novel
#Bales2026FilmChallenge #FilmSky #MovieSky 📽️ 🎬️
#TheColorPurple (1985)
Tale spanning 40 years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the South who survives incredible abuse and bigotry.
Based on #AliceWalker's Pulitzer Prize winning novel.

Born OTD in 1944 #AliceWalker’s first poetry book, “Once” was published in 1968 by Harcourt, Brace & World. Poems are from her days #SarahLawrence College and summer in #EastAfrica. Walker’s book includes #haiku and #poetry about US #CivilRights #love and #beauty

♥️🖤💚✊🏽📚✍🏽

From my #WishIWroteIt files:

I must really think of something
better to do than kill myself.

- "Really, Doesn't Crime pay?,"
story in #AliceWalker's
In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black Women
(HBJ, 1973)
page 80