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    • Gathering Blossoms Under Fire, The Journals of Alice Walker | Edited by Valerie Boyd
    • Sweet People Are Everywhere
    • TAKING THE ARROW OUT OF THE HEART
    • Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart: A Novel
    • Possessing the Secret of Joy
    • We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For,
    • THE Temple of My Familiar
    • You Can’t Keep A Good Woman Down
    • By the Light of My Father’s Smile
    • Overcoming Speechlessness
    • The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker
    • Hard Times Require Furious Dancing
    • Why War Is Never a Good Idea
    • Anything We Love Can Be Saved
    • The Way Forward is With a Broken Heart
    • Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth
    • Sent By Earth
    • Warrior Marks
    • The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult
    • To Hell with Dying
    • Horses Make A Landscape Look More Beautiful
    • In Search of Our Mothers’ Garden: Womanist Prose
    • Good Night, Willie Lee, I’ll See You in the Morning
    • Meridian
    • Revolutionary Petunias
    • Once
    • The Third Life of Grange Copeland
    • THE Chicken Chronicles: A Memoir
    • View More – Alice Walker Books, Poetry, and Work
  • Other People’s Everything
    • Other People’s Books, Etc.
    • Democratic Womanism
    • Julian Assange
    • Palestine/Israel
    • South Africa
    • Video Gallery
    • White History
  • Posts by Date
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    • Post excerpts
  • Videos
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About Alice

Internationally Celebrated Writer, Poet and Activist.


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Yes, you've found me, this is my website, Alice Walkers Garden.


I've written on Alice Walker's Garden for many years, sharing my writings, thoughts, what I'm reading, and significant events in and around my life. Take a look around, sign up (coming soon!) to get my latest entries, and most of all, explore.


My About Page Biography.

Celebrating Life

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Alice Walkers Garden

El Jardín de Alice Walker

 

Dedicated, with love, to all seven of us: Alice, Amanda, Manuel, Joan, Rebecca, Efrain and Laura. Seven, the number that is sacred.  Seven, the number that gets it done. Transformation. Since 2008.*** ~AW_

 

Dedicado con amor a nosotros siete:
Alice, Amanda. Manuel, Joan,  Rebecca, Efrain y Laura.
Siete, el número que es sagrado. Siete, el número que la logra hacer:
La Transformación. Since 2008.*** ~AW 

  • Stéphane Hessel, Presente: One Reward of a Just Life is to Die Peacefully in One’s Sleep

    / February 27, 2013

    Stéphane Hessel, one of the great old men of the world still standing, inspired all of us who participated in the Russell Tribunal on Palestine over the last several years.  He died peacefully…

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  • Our Wonderful Awakening World (Oxfam’s Behind The Brands Campaign)

    / February 26, 2013

    The letter below from Oxfam, which arrived in my e-mail today, is self-explanatory.  Reading it evoked much emotion.  Even more than when I read a petition recently about making sure the people who bring…

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  • Bearded Iris

    Wedding Ceremony: Marrying Good Men (from The Cushion in the Road) Spring 2013

    / February 25, 2013

     Marrying Good Men A month ago, I married two good men.  To each other.  You can imagine how this must have shocked my grandparents, with whom I continue to have a close relationship,…

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  • A Meditation: Wait Until Morning, Veterans for Peace (typescript of video)

    / February 25, 2013

                                Set a Place for Him     Wait Until Morning: Veterans for Peace (transcript of video)Miami, Florida August 11,…

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  • Poem: Not From Here (from Chitauri Blues, a work in progress)

    / February 18, 2013

    Not From Here for beloved Kaleo who opened this door to me.            Credo Mutwa pointing to a likeness of a Chitauri that he painted  (from Chitauri Blues, a…

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  • Commentary: Human Race Get Off Your Knees: I couldn’t have put it better myself

    / February 16, 2013

    I have been dragging along David Icke’s monumental book: Human Race Get Off Your Knees for the last month.  It has been on my lap as I sat; been propped against pillows as…

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  • Poem: Why Peace is Always a Good Idea. From a new book of poems, Spring 2013: The World Will Follow Joy; Turning Madness into Flowers

    / February 14, 2013

    WHY PEACE IS ALWAYS A GOOD IDEA 
©2011 by Alice Walker 
For Jacqui Hairston, with love.  Because you could plant peach trees 
And because of peace
 You could eat them in five or…

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  • Alice and Charlie February 9, 2013

    Essay: Encountering the Unknown Brazil from New Book THE CUSHION IN THE ROAD Spring, 2013

    / February 10, 2013

    ENCUENTRO CON EL BRASIL DESCONOCIDO Photo by Monica Belaunde Montero ENCOUNTERING THE UNKNOWN BRAZIL  Copyright ©2012 by Alice Walker   So there I was, on my way to a huge book festival in…

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  • Poem about the film Landfillharmonic: I Am Telling You, Discouraged One, We Will Win

    / February 7, 2013

    I am telling you Discouraged One we will win. And I will show you why. We are the offspring of the ignorantly discarded: we  conjure   sunrise with our smiles and provoke music out of…

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Alice’s Highlighted Posts

  • Blood Batteries VideoGravitas Plus: The dark side of Electric Vehicles (Video)
  • CREEPY MATRIX – Womb factory video
  • Working for Light
  • Captain Alan Dana pilot australia airlinesCaptain Alan Dana: The Implications of the C19 Injections
  • Alice-Walker-with-friends-2022-09-The-Woman-King-FilmThe Woman King “This film breaks our hearts and heals our hearts” ~aw
  • WEF The most evil business in the world 2022-09“WEF: The Most Evil Business in the World” Video
  • Mississippi Book Festival 2022 Alice Walker Kiese LaymonMississippi Book Festival 2022: In Conversation with Alice Walker & Kiese Laymon
  • Brother Russell MeansBrother Russell Means Presente! (in 2012 and now again in 2022)

Recent Posts

  • Happy Birthday Astounding One
  • Gravitas Plus: The dark side of Electric Vehicles (Video)
  • Angela Davis
  • Diana Goddess of the Hunt
  • Anything We Love Can Be Saved an evening with Alice Walker recorded May 10, 1997
  • Long Live Pele!
  • CREEPY MATRIX – Womb factory video
  • Video: Why is Africa turning away from the United States? with Arikana Chihombori-Quao
  • Emancipation isn’t just a film.
  • Welcome Home Daughter, Brittany Griner
  • Georgia Senator Elect Raphael Warnock
  • The Virgen de Guadalupe underneath my livingroom window in Oakland!!!

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Recent Books

  • Book Cover: Gathering Blossoms Under Fire by Alice WalkerGathering Blossoms Under Fire, The Journals of Alice Walker | Edited by Valerie Boyd
  • Valerie Boyd & FriendStanding in the Ring of Life: Pub day April 12th 2022
  • Sweet People Are Everywhere by Alice Walker 2021Introducing Alice Walker’s New Children’s Book:
    Sweet People Are Everywhere
  • Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart Alice Walker New Book Cover 2018New Poems, TAKING THE ARROW OUT OF THE HEART

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