alice walker as well as frances goldin are here to talk about her life.alker, your thoughts about adrienne rich? >> up, it was very interesting. she and i saw each other infrequently and almost always by accident. it was quite magical. sometimes we would be in an elevator to gather and she would have come from one part of the country and me from somewhere else, and there we would be. or show up in a movie and there we would be. she was very close to a friend of mine. i got to know more about her through june jordan and also her poetry, which was very meaningful to me. the thing i'm most loved was her integrity. -- the thing i most loved was heard iher integrity. we will miss her. >> can you talk about the national book award in 1973 that she won for "diving into the rack" that she insisted that you, alice, and audre lorde x up the word with her on stage? talk about that moment. where were you? >> i was in mississippi. i was fighting the good fight down there. anyway, what happened was we were all renominated for this award. we understood to your living un