Alice Walker

Alice Walker

female, 65 years old
author, poet, Feminist, African American, African-American, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner…from the United States, thecolorpurple
Alice Malsenior Walker (born February 9, 1944) is an American author and feminist. She received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1983 for her...
Oprah Winfrey

Oprah Winfrey

female, 55 years old
television talk show host, the oprah winfrey show, entrepreneur, black billionaire, American billionaire, influential woman…The 100 Most Powerful Women, thecolorpurple, Baptist from the United States
Oprah Gail Winfrey (born January 29, 1954) is the American multiple-Emmy Award winning host of "The Oprah Winfrey Show", the highest rated talk...
Whoopi Goldberg

Whoopi Goldberg

female, 53 years old
Star Trek The Next Generation actor, actress, African American, Best Supporting Actress Golden Globe, African-American actor, Guinan…thecolorpurple, Tales from the Crypt actor
Whoopi Goldberg (born Caryn Elaine Johnson, November 13, 1955) is an American actress, comedian and radio DJ. Goldberg is one of only ten...
Michelle Williams

Michelle Williams

female, 29 years old
Destiny's Child member, Illinois actor, monica, African-American, thecolorpurple, singer-songwriter
Michelle Williams (born Tenitra Michelle Williams on July 23, 1980) is an American gospel and R&B singer, songwriter, and actress, who was a...
Quincy Jones

Quincy Jones

male, 76 years old
Jazz-pop trumpeter, music arranger, Washington musician, Bebop trumpeter, Swing trumpeter, Grammy Legend Award…We Are the World, thecolorpurple
Quincy Delightt Jones Jr. (born March 14, 1933) is an American music impresario, conductor, record producer, musical arranger, film composer and...
Fantasia Barrino

Fantasia Barrino

female, 25 years old
American Idol, american idol winner, Reality show winner, Broadway theatre, award, thecolorpurple…Baptist from the United States
Fantasia Monique Barrino (born June 30 1984), or simply Fantasia, is a Grammy nominated, award-winning, American pop, R&B, soul singer and Broadway...

Lachanze

female
dancer, Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical, Law & Order Special Victims Unit cast, Tony Award winner, The University Of The Arts, Musical theatre actor…thecolorpurple
LaChanze (whose name means "one who is charmed") is an African-American actress, singer, and dancer. She attended The University of the Arts in...

Margaret Avery

female
film actor, actress, American, actor, MacGyver actor, thecolorpurple
Margaret Avery (born in Mangum, Oklahoma) is an American singer and actress. She was nominated for an Academy Award (Best Supporting Actress, 1985)...

Gary Griffin

male, 49 years old
Theatre director, My Fair Lady, Broadway theatre, Olivier Award, Sunday in the Park With George, The Apple Tree…The New Moon, thecolorpurple
Gary Griffin, born 1960 in St. Louis, Missouri, is an American theater director. Griffin grew up in Rockford, Illinois, where he graduated from...
Marsha Norman

Marsha Norman

female, 62 years old
Juilliard School faculty, libretto, From Louisville, Kentucky, 'night, Mother, The Red Shoes, Kentucky writer…the secret garden, thecolorpurple
Marsha Norman is an American playwright, screenwriter and novelist. Norman won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play "'night, Mother". She...