My activism did not spring from my being gay, or, for that matter, from my being black. Rather, it is rooted fundamentally in my Quaker upbringing and the values that were instilled in me by my grandparents who reared me.
Bio: Richmond Walker was the author of Twenty-Four Hours A Day, a daily meditation book for sobriety. It is popularly known in Alcoholics Anonymous as "The Little Black Book."
