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Alice Walker

Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful

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  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    Walker paid further tribute to her “literary aunt” when she purchased a headstone for Hurston’s grave, which had gone unmarked for over a decade. The inscription on the tombstone reads, “A Genius of the South.”
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    The couple met in Mississippi and bonded over their mutual involvement in the struggle for civil rights—he as a budding litigator for the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, she as one of the organization’s workers responsible for taking depositions from disenfranchised black voters.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    It was here that Walker first witnessed the practice of female genital mutilation, a practice that she has since worked to eradicate.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    loading munitions onto a cargo vessel. Walker has remained a dedicated political activist since the 1960s, when she returned to the South after graduating from Sarah Lawrence to help register black voters.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    Recently, she was arrested with fellow California-based author Maxine Hong Kingston in Washington, DC, during a protest against the U.S. invasion of Iraq. “My activism—cultural, political, spiritual—is rooted in my love of nature and my delight in human beings,” Walker explains.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    Walker with celebrated historian Howard Zinn, who taught one of her classes at Spelman College, in the 1960s. Walker developed a lifelong friendship with Zinn and considered him one of her mentors.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    Walker at her country home in Northern California, where she has lived since the early 1980s.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    During this time Walker also began to distinguish herself as an essayist and nonfiction writer with collections on race, feminism, and culture, including In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens (1983) and Living by the Word (1988). Another collection of poetry, Hard Times Require Furious Dancing, was released in 2010, followed by her memoir, The Chicken Chronicles, in the spring of 2011.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    had a tremendously prolific decade. She produced a number of acclaimed novels, including You Can’t Keep a Good Woman Down (1982), The Temple of My Familiar (1989), and Possessing the Secret of Joy (1992), as well as the poetry collections Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful (1985) and Her Blue Body Everything We Know (1991).
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    Currently, Walker lives in Northern California, and spends much of her time traveling, teaching, and working for human rights and civil liberties in the United States and abroad. She continues to write and publish along with her many other activities.
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