Feature: Alice Walker, extending compassion and love through activism and poetry

Internationally commemorated for her poetry, writing and activism, Alice Walker is a great hero of our time. 

Walker was born on Feb. 9, 1944 to a poor family of sharecroppers in Eatonton, Georgia. Walker is the youngest of eight children. 

Throughout her life, Walker has written many bestsellers such as “The Temple of My Familiar”, “The Color Purple” and “Possessing the Secret of Joy”. 

In 1983, Walker won the Pulitzer Prize in the fiction category, as well as the National Book Award. 

Walker writes on a wide range of topics such as racial injustice, equality, female genital mutilation, the Cival Rights Movement, sexuality, healing, spirituality, maternity and many other important topics of society. 

Throughout the years, her work has been translated into more than 24 different languages and her books have sold more than 15 million copies. 

Walker believes that learning to extend compassion is an activity available to all. She is an activist for not only for human rights, but for the rights of all living beings. 

Walker travels “the world to literally stand on the side of the poor, and the economically, spiritually and politically oppressed”, the official website of Alice Walker states. 

If you would like to keep up with Walker, check out her blog, where she writes regularly to her readers.

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