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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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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 (possibly 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 

  • Butterfly on a Red Bougainvillea AI Generated

    Witnessing A Butterfly or, How I lost all Fear of AI

    / January 7, 2026

    Copyright © 2026 by Alice Walker Looking at a butterfly Black and silver Glossy and intent: It was having A rendezvous With the scarlet Bougainvillea Near the pool. In & out Among the…

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Alice’s Highlighted Posts

  • Sabby Sabs Logo black with Oink LettersWhy Are We So Blessed? Queen Sabby and Queen Candace, Queen Brianha and Queen Joy, and Queen Kim! Queen Laurissa! Queen Susan! Queen Whitney and Queen Amy!
  • One Country Quietly Won This Entire War _ Prof.Dr.MarandiTo Be Talked To As If We Have Sense: Thank you, Dr. Marandi, for teaching us who wins wars and why
  • Shahid Bolsen Greater Israel CoverBitter Medicine: They Don’t know What Love Is.
  • “The Ethiopian Bible Preserves”The Jesus We Knew Was There
  • World Kitchen Central CodePink Cuba 2026What weapon is this???
  • Owl sitting on a branchWhose Little Human Are You?
  • Humanity Invented A “God” Much Like Itself
  • China delivers emergency riceImagine…
  • Beautiful Khoisan mother holding her childIt Is Not Too Late…

Recent Posts

  • A Poem For Mothers of the Trafficked and the Slain
  • We’ve Been Waiting…
  • Hope
  • Removing Tyrants: A Message From Cherokee Ancestors
  • The Hopi Remember The Trees
  • Fiel: ¡Feliz cumpleaños Fidel!
  • Nothing is Stronger Than a Circle
  • Meridian
  • We Could Have Been A Contender! The Manhood of Michelle Obama
  • A FEATHER AND A FORK ~ Crystal Wahpepah with Amy Paige Condon
  • On Nolan, Nolan Xavier Wells and All children are our responsibility.
  • Thank you, South Africa
  • Why Write Speech You Will Never Hear Again? To Enjoy It.
  • The Best Thing I Learned at Sarah Lawrence
  • A Poem Started Years Ago
  • Sharing My Love of Shamanic Huichol Art
  • How is it the whole world cannot stop evil?
  • The Polygamist
  • Possessing the Secret of Joy
  • Mother Earth Teaching by Wendsler Nosie Sr – Apache

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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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