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An Interview with Alice Walker

By Alice Walker — 2018

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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.

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Henry Louis Gates Jr.

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