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Taking Care of the Truth
Embedded Slander: A Meditation On the Complicity of Wikipedia
BEGINNING IN THE LATE 1990s I became aware that my daughter, Rebecca Grant Walker Leventhal, aka Rebecca Walker, was, for her own purposes, making wildly untrue comments, in private talks, lectures, and in the media, about her childhood… Continue reading
We Are Never Without Help
©2013 by Alice Walker
We are never without help.
Look for it always
to surprise you.
There is no end to the joy
of discovery
just as there is no end
to amazement.
Those who give their lives
for truth and bread
for the triumphant
flash of a vivid
bougainvillea
even as they
die
in unspeakable
ways
or… Continue reading
I have just returned from the UK premier of Pratibha Parmar’s film about my life, BEAUTY IN TRUTH, whose producer is her partner of thirty years, Shaheen Haq. London was at its most hospitable, and the Women of the World (WOW) Festival, at which the film was shown, was delightful and invigorating, even though I saw only the tiniest bit of the innumerable presentations.… Continue reading
The Good Ones
For Hugo Chavez
March 5, 2013
©2013 by Alice Walker
The good ones
who listen
to women
to children and the poor
die too soon,
their lives bedeviled
by opposition:
our hearts grieve for them.
This was the world my father knew.
A poor man
he saw good men come and mostly go;… Continue reading
Stéphane Hessel (center) with Alice Walker, Desmond Tutu, Pierre Galand (far left) Aminata Traore, and Cynthia McKinney of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine in Cape Town, South Africa 2011. Photo by Pratibha Parmar.
for Stéphane Hessel who seemed to know.