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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.


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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 

  • Happy birthday! (March 30th) Tracy Chapman:

    / March 30, 2023

    Tracy and Alice camping mid-Nineties.  Photo by Tracy Chapman Happy birthday! (March 30th) Blessed one Who carries ancestors In your voice- As extraordinary And faithful To your course As the sun.~aw  

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  • Mumia Happy Birthday

    Happy Birthday Mumia Abu-Jamal/ April 24

    / April 24, 2022

    Feliz Cumpleaños Mumia Abu-Jamal/ Abril 24 Happy Birthday Mumia Abu-Jamal/ April 24 What have you given us to accompany our despair? A life lived to the full In a cage too small for…

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  • Book Cover: Gathering Blossoms Under Fire by Alice Walker

    Gathering Blossoms Under Fire, The Journals of Alice Walker | Edited by Valerie Boyd

    / April 12, 2022

    Update 2023-04 : New photo by Vashchelle Andre of Alice and Ede   By Alice Walker Edited by Valerie Boyd  Publisher Simon and Schuster Alice Walker encourages you to purchase her books from…

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  • Valerie Boyd & Friend

    Standing in the Ring of Life: Pub day April 12th 2022

    / April 12, 2022

    Parados en el cuadrilátero de la vida: Día de publicación: abril 12 de 2022 Dream Team:  Valerie and Evelyn and Ali Gathering Blossoms Under Fire  /  Equipo Ideal: Valerie y Evelyn y Ali…

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  • Landscape green mountain and a lake Alice Walkers Garden 2021

    Her Bright Green Skirt

    / November 26, 2021

                                                                     …

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  • Sweet People Are Everywhere by Alice Walker 2021

    Introducing Alice Walker’s New Children’s Book:
    Sweet People Are Everywhere

    / November 2, 2021

    By Alice Walker Sweet People Are Everywhere, an illustrated book for children ages 4–8 (and readers of all ages) featuring a poem by internationally renowned writer and activist Alice Walker, locates the “sweet…

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  • Sweet People Are Everywhere by Alice Walker 2021

    Alice reads from her new children’s book
    “Sweet People Are Everywhere”
    October 2021

    / October 8, 2021

    Please Join Alice Walker, Crayola and Tra Publishing as Alice reads from her new children’s book, “Sweet People Are Everywhere” TUESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2021 AT 11 AM PDT Read Along, Draw Along with…

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  • “Nigger” In the Language of Love

    / May 8, 2017

    En Español   “Nigger” In the Language of Love (Turning a poison into medicine) ©2017 by Alice Walker   For all those who remind us how this works.   Pretty soon we might…

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  • Winne Mandela posted by Alice Walker on alicewalkersgarden.com

    WINNIE MANDELA WE LOVE YOU

    / September 26, 2016

    En Español   The name “Lucy,” which appears in the following poem, was given by paleoanthropologists to the fossilized skeleton of the most ancient, recognizably human ancestral figure ever found.  A female being…

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  • The Long Road Home Poem for Muhammad Ali

    / June 7, 2016

    The Long Road Home ©2016 by Alice Walker I am beginning to comprehend the mystery of the gift of suffering. It is true as some have said that it is a crucible in…

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  • Lodestar ©2015 by Alice Walker

    / September 10, 2015

     Lodestar ©2015 by Alice Walker Here is what I believe Will be the hardest thing To do: To remember That we have A soul. It is so quiet The soul And weighs Almost…

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  • THE CIRCLE

    / June 21, 2015

    WHAT DOES THE AWAKENED PERSON DO? photo by AP/David Goldman or Reuters/Randall Hill (!)   THE CIRCLE ©2015 by Alice Walker I myself do not believe In political parties Comprised, generally, in my experience, of so…

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  • The Energy Of The Wave – For the people of Africa

    / January 18, 2015

    The Energy Of The Wave For the people of Africa (facing armored tanks and other weapons they did not make) ©2015 by Alice Walker As a child I sensed But did not Grasp…

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  • What do I get for getting old? A Picture Story for the Curious!

    / April 23, 2013

    From the new book of poems: THE WORLD WILL FOLLOW JOY: Turning Madness Into Flowers Spring 2013 Bicycle dress guard by Simeli Ananda What Do I Get For Getting Old? A Picture Story…

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  • Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart Alice Walker New Book Cover 2018

    New Poems, TAKING THE ARROW OUT OF THE HEART

    / March 20, 2013

    Available now in hardcover and ebook: Hardcover:    Amazon   B&N   BAM   Indies EBook:   Kindle   iTunes   Nook   BAM   Google Play   Kobo

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Alice’s Highlighted Posts

  • Saturday, June 3 for the Living The Truth screening event featuring three films by award-winning filmmaker Pratibha Parmar, and special guest Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Alice WalkerLiving The Truth Special Cinema Event Pratibha Parmar and Alice Walker
    June 3 2023
  • cover for youtube video Bad for Biden? picture of Kamala Harris laughingTime to be real. ~aw
  • Cover white rose in cupped hands with The Flower title overlayThe Flower by Michael Franti & Spearhead (feat. Victoria Canal)
  • Capitalism Hits Home with Dr. Harriet FraadCapitalism Hits Home l Empires Rise and Fall, The US Is No Exception | Dr. Harriet Fraad
  • Democracy Now Brazilian Amazon Leader 2023-03-31Brazilian Amazon Leader Urges Lula to Prosecute Bolsonaro for Genocide Against Indigenous Yamomami
  • Beloved Young Trans People
  • Weather-Modification-the-US-Military-Title-pageWeather Modification And The U.S. Military
  • August 6, 1965 Staughton Lynd at the March Against the Vietnam War, organized by the Assembly of Unrepresented People.Staughton Lynd, Rebel Historian, Philosopher, Teacher, and…Poet.

Recent Posts

  • Back With the Wind, The Color Purple (The Musical), Christmas 2023
  • Happy Birthday! May 29th Beloved Robert Allen
  • The Wonders of Shondaland!
  • May 16th Happy Birthday! Beloved Adrienne Rich
  • May 14th Beloved Jean Weisinger
  • Mothers’ Day 2023 Julia Ward Howe
  • Living The Truth Special Cinema Event Pratibha Parmar and Alice Walker
    June 3 2023
  • “We Need a Peaceful Revolution”, Robert Kennedy, Jr.
  • Two astonishing Indian Films: The White Tiger and RRR
  • Time to be real. ~aw
  • Happy Birthday David Icke!
  • Happy Birthday, Mumia Abu Jamal!

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  • 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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