For Walker, personal creativity is essential - along with the courage
to back it.
She's as known for standing up for creative cultures as she is for challenging cultures that hold us back.
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Take this example from her answers at a Q&A discussion at the Southbank Centre from 2013.
“I have a certain spirit as we all do if we don’t suppress it... and that spirit was the spirit of creativity...
“I was brought up in a culture where to be a mother was never thought of as just being the mother of your child.
"We always thought that to be a mother is to be a mother in the old old sense, where you are the mother of everyone... in your community, and everyone... everywhere."
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