Alice Walker

Overview

Alice Walker born Eatonton, GA February 9, 1944. Author; essayist; poet; activist. Inspired by Martin Luther King, Jr., Howard Zinn, Rosa Parks, and Fannie Lou Hamer, registered Mississippi voters, 1965; with husband Melvyn Leventhal, first legally married interracial couple in Mississippi, 1967. Awarded Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1983; recipient National Book Award, 1983.

Quotations

"The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout. . . I do not believe in war at all; although I am as capable of anger as anyone. To me war is something to be outgrown, recognized as immature, wasteful and so destructive to life that human beings should shun it as they shun swine flu, or HIV/AIDS or as they once shunned Bubonic Plague." (March 22, 2010, The Root Blog; 2007 photo Wikipedia)