Time moves slowly, but passes quickly.

Alice Walker

The Color Purple

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Topic

Nature of time Time

Author

Alice Walker

Source

The Color Purple

Medium

Novel

Genre

Epistolary novel

Language

English

Time

1982 1980s 20th century

Occupation

Black writer Writer

From

United States

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Citation

Walker, Alice. The Color Purple. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1982.

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Time’s the king of men.
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