Alice Walker

Alice Walker talks about self-perception and love in Zora Neale Hurston's work.

After 75 years, Zora Neale Hurston's novel, "Their Eyes Were Watching God," still resonates in the hearts and minds of contemporary audiences, but it had particular significance for black women writers and artists who were working at the time of its rediscovery. The Greene Space convened three luminaries who are all intimately connected to the novel -- Alice Walker, Sonia Sanchez and Ruby Dee -- to share their stories and describe how they saw Janie and Zora's horizons on their own journeys. Zora Neale Hurston's niece Lucy Anne Hurston, author of Speak, So You Can Speak Again: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston, served as the evening's moderator.

Here, Alice Walker discusses self-perception and self-love among writers and people of color.

An Interview with Alice Walker.

In this BBC interview, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Alice Walker, describes a childhood experience and the thoughts it triggered about poverty, rage, oppression, sexism, and misogyny that has influenced her writing.

Alice Walker: Trump Has 'Inferiority Complex', Envied Obama | The Beat With Ari Melber | MSNBC

Pulitzer Prize winning author Alice Walker joins Ari Melber to discuss her new work confronting the Trump era head-on, a book of poetry that tackles race, police brutality and the immigration crisis. Walker also responds to hip hop artist Kendrick Lamar quoting her novel for the first time ever and discusses the truth they are both pursuing in their art.

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"So in the end you can't even really regret your misfortunes," explains the beloved author Alice Walker, "because they led you somewhere."

Walker speaks from experience. From growing up poor in the segregated south and losing part of her vision in a childhood accident to receiving threats from the Ku Klux Klan for her interracial marriage and work with the NAACP in 1960s Mississippi, Walker has experienced her share of hardships.

But over the years she has channeled these experiences into groundbreaking fiction about the lives of blacks in America, becoming one of the most celebrated writers of her time. Through her continued dedication to writing and politics she remains a powerful example of what it means to lead a purposeful life.

Open Road Media is proud to present this inspiring new video of Walker, whose work is now available for the first time in digital form.

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