*No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.* [*Alice Walker*](http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7380.Alice_Walker?utm_medium=email&utm_source=quote_of_the_day) Happy 71st birthday, Alice Walker! In 1973 the author found Zora Neale Hurston’s unmarked grave and, along with a Hurston scholar, funded a headstone. Later, Walker wrote an article for Ms. magazine that helped revive interest in Hurston’s work.