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  • About
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    • Books
    • 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
    • Blog Entries by Date
    • Post excerpts
  • Videos
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  • Alice Walker Highlighted Posts

I love this quote of his holiness: Compassion is the radicalism of our time.

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 

  • Don’t Give Up (Beautiful Child, Other Self)

    / August 10, 2014

    Don’t Give Up (Beautiful Child, Other Self)  ©2014 by Alice Walker   What they will pretend not to know When you are injured Is how ugly you feel now. It is hard to…

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Alice’s Highlighted Posts

  • SANAAQ book coverSanaaq, the first Inuit novel
  • idol pagan god of child sacrificeWhy Do Men In Power Want More Children?
  • The Tailor Netfix poster shows a bride with veil covering her face and a groom holding her waist and he has a blind fold over his eyesThe Tailor
  • A Trove of Rarely Seen Photographs of Revolutionary Black Women
  • Book Cover The-Community-A-Memoir-N.Jamiyla-ChisholmThe Community, by Jamiyla Chisholm
  • Young Nahel Photo 2023Article: 25 Truths About the Death of Young Nahel in France
  • Photo of Tracy Brown 2023Single. Black. Female. The Gift of Tracy Brown
  • REBEL CINDERELLA Book Cover 2023Rebel Cinderella: the Epic Journey of Rose Pastor Stokes

Recent Posts

  • Hawaii E Homai Zelie Kuliaikanu’u Duvauchhelle
  • Sanaaq, the first Inuit novel
  • Why Do Men In Power Want More Children?
  • The Tailor
  • A Poem For Mothers of the Trafficked and the Slain
  • On the Sound of Freedom Film and “Men’s Work:  Ending male violence.”
  • A Trove of Rarely Seen Photographs of Revolutionary Black Women
  • The Community, by Jamiyla Chisholm
  • Article: 25 Truths About the Death of Young Nahel in France
  • Single. Black. Female. The Gift of Tracy Brown
  • Rebel Cinderella: the Epic Journey of Rose Pastor Stokes
  • Pacific Stories….

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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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