• Poem: Desire

    / February 27, 2011

    Desire ©2011 by Alice Walker My desire is always the same; wherever Life deposits me: I want to stick my toe & soon my whole body into the water. I want to shake…

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  • Ending the Age of Waste

    / February 24, 2011

    Ancestors of here Ending The Age of Waste ©2011 by Alice Walker The most important thing humanity can do is believe in itself.  That we can grow, that we can change, and that…

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  • Blessed Are the Poor in Spirit

    / February 15, 2011

    A Christ.  Compassionate  artist unknown “Blessed are the poor in spirit (for theirs is the kingdom of heaven).” ©2011 by Alice Walker Did you ever understand this? If my spirit was poor, how…

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  • The tree of life has fallen

    / February 14, 2011

    Photo by Laura Balandran 2008 ©2011 by Alice Walker The tree of lifehas fallen on my small house.I thought it was so much bigger! But it is not.There in the distance I see…

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  • To Change the World Enough

    / February 14, 2011

    To change the world enoughyou must cease to be afraidof the poor.We experience your fear as the least pardonable ofhumiliations; in the pastit has sent us scurrying offdaunted and ashamedinto the shadows.Now,the world…

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  • Poem: Our Martyrs

    / February 11, 2011

    Our Martyrs ©2011 by Alice Walker When the peoplehave won a victorywhether smallor largedo you ever wonderat that momentwhere the martyrsmight be? They who sacrificedthemselvesto bring to lifesomething unknownthough nonetheless more preciousthan their…

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  • An Open Letter to Nawal El- Saadawi

    / February 3, 2011

    Alice Walker and Nawal El -Saadawi, Amsterdam, 1990s An Open Letter to Nawal El- Saadawi ©2011 by Alice Walker Dear Nawal El- Saadawi, Remember when we met in Amsterdam many years ago?  I…

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