Alice Walker

Alice Walker was born on February 9, 1944 in Easton, Georgia. She worked as a social worker, a teacher, and lecturer. She also took part of the civil rights movement in the 1960s in Mississippi. Alice Walker also won the 1983 Pulitzer prize for fiction for her 1982 novel, The Color Purple. She is also a poet and essayist.

" The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any."

--Alice Walker