A Recipe for Difficult Times
Anxiety Soup By Alice Walker You know as well as I do that in the coming elections we will choose world leaders who will be required to stand with us through perhaps the…
Mississippi
Coming to Mississippi From The Third Annual Gathering of Veteransof the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement 2008 By Alice Walker I came to Mississippi in 1966. Forty-two years ago. I came alone. It was…
May Whatever We Have Gained, Not Be Lost
I have sent out a request that Senator Barack Obama, or Michelle Obama, get in touch with me. While waiting for a response (and imagining how busy they must be), I decided to…
Human Sunrise
A Letter to the Graduating Class of Naropa University from Alice Walker May 11, 2007 Someone told me Once that Earth is the only planet that has mornings. The only planet that…
Korean Women’s Soul Questions
KOREAN WOMEN’S SOUL QUESTIONS by Alice Walker and Hyun-kyung Chung Before going to South Korea, a few years ago, my friend Hyun-kyung Chung and I were asked twelve questions by South Korean…
Introducing The Ojibwa Warrior
Over the years I have written many introductions to books. I will use this blog to share some of those introductions, in order to spread the word about their existence. I am especially…
The Mother’s Business
An Introduction to Possessing the Secret of JoyThe New Press EditionBy Alice Walker I like to tell this story because it sounds unlikely. There we were, filmmaker Pratibha Parmar and I, on a…
