ms. walker. hello? amaya there? hello? >> guest: you are here, hello. >> caller: you look exactly as you were 20 years ago when i saw you. i know you live the good life. >> guest: thank you. >> caller: i am 62 years. i was born in the philippines. your books have always made me cry. i just want to tell you that you gi me hope on this planet that somehow. >> host: caller, why do alice walker's books make you cry? >> caller: because there's so truthful and because i wish more people would read them, unfortunately some people -- some people are too poor to read or they are looking for their next day's food to eat. >> host: thank you caller. >> guest: here is a kiss on both cheeks and tears are fine. they are just cleaning the windows. could you have any idea how many books you have sold? >> guest: 10 million a thing, something like that. >> host: "the color purple" obviously the best seller. >> guest: by far. "possessing the secret of joy" did very well. that is the novel about the young african woma

ms. walker? response to what he was saying? >> guest: why don't quite get the question. >> host: what is that? >> guest: is a drink like a medicine people use and a lot of central and south american countries to heal various things in the psyche primarily, and i studied this medicine for a year and he is referring to that. about publishing, i did found a publishing company called wild trees press. it's no longer working now because it was so successful that all i had to stop publishing other people because when you are a publisher this i hadn't realized i think you have to read everything and i just was overwhelmed by couldn't do my own work. my eyes were tired and so after having five or six books and five or six years we closed the publishing company, but i think for you and people who want to publish you should think about getting together with two or three other people and founding your own company. >> host: as you can see we are going to show to alice walker has an extensive court in here in