• 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…