By Stone Martindale Dec 17, 2006, 17:20 GMT
Author Alice Walker, a longtime favorite of Oprah Winfrey's, has revealed her affair with eighties music sensation Tracy Chapman to the Guardian Unlimited.
Pulitzer Prize winning author Alice Walker walks the red carpet before being inducted into the California Hall of Fame by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and First Lady Maria Shriver, outside the California Museum for History, Women and the Arts in Sacramento, California, EPA/ARLEEN NG
The Guardian's Sarah Wajid has a revealing interview where Walker discusses leaving Random House and her love life:
Said Wajid: "So why did they decide against using their relationship to make a big social impact like other celebrity lesbian couples, such as Ellen DeGeneres and Anne Heche, have in the past? The idea seems to amuse her.:"
Walker: "I would never do that. My life is not to be somebody else's impact — you know what I mean?"
"I'm like a fig tree and I'm just putting out the figs and then there is a job that the people who get it have. It's their job to translate it into the language their mothers, their sisters, their cousins can understand. That happened with The Color Purple." It has sold 5m copies in 25 languages and has been made into a musical produced by Oprah Winfrey." Said Walker in the Guardian interview.
The interview can be read in its entirety at:
http://books.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1972800,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=10
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