• Leaving Managua

    Robert Allen, Rosario Ortega, Unrecalled Kind Person, Alice, Daniel Ortega Managua, Nicaragua, mid- Eighties   Leaving Managua ©2017 by Alice Walker You were never to know, until now perhaps, that I was weeping…

  • Nothing is Stronger Than a Circle

    Thoughts on the Russell Tribunal re: International Corporate Complicity in the Destruction of the People of Palestine Convening in London November 20-23rd 2010 Copyright©2010 by Alice Walker   November 19, 2010 In many…

  • St. John

    ©2010 by Alice Walker The LennonOno Peace Grant Ceremony Reykjavik, Iceland October 9, 2010 I have an altar above the stovetop in my kitchen that has been there for many years; it is…

  • The Settled Mind

    If the mind is always calm and still, dark and silent, not seeing anything, neither inside nor outside, free of all thoughts and mental images, this is the settled mind, which is not…

  • We Believe by Staughton and Alice Lynd

    ©2010 by Alice WalkerToday I took down the wonderful photos and poems that surround me in my kitchen; they have been there, taped to my cabinets, for a number of years, giving me…

  • "You Will Have No Protection"

    Medgar Evers to Civil Rights Activists in Mississippi,  shortly before he was assassinated June 12, 1963   Supporting BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) June 3, 2010  —  © 2010 by Alice Walker My…

  • I was asked recently to name my favorite novel about justice. My favorite novel about justice is Les Miserables by Victor Hugo. In the character of Jean Val jean Hugo shows how what…

  • More Meditation Required!

    el manto de la virgen de guadalupe, plaza de los caballeros del sol, costa careyes, jalisco, mexico Photo ©2010 by Henri Norris May 25, 2010 — Article © 2010 by Alice Walker A…