I was distressed that after 9/11, when the United States was attacked by terrorists, the United States' response was to attack Afghanistan, where some of the terrorists had been.

to the White House. After high school Walker went to Spelman College in Atlanta on a full scholarship in 1961 and later transferred to Sarah Lawrence College near New York City graduating in 1965. Walker and her husband divorced amicably in 1976.

Alice Malsenior Walker (born February 9 1944) is an American author poet feminist and activist.