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    • 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
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    • Julian Assange
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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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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 

  • 2008 LEONARD COHEN LIVE IN LONDON | Democracy |

    / March 24, 2020

    Leonard Cohen Democracy is coming to USA     Leonard Cohen has already left us. But what a wonderful elder he was, and through his poetry, remains.  Covid-19 is said to specialize in…

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  • We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965–85 with Alice Walker Brooklyn Museum (May 25, 2017)

    / June 2, 2017

    An Evening with Alice Walker Thu, May 25 from 7:30 – 9:30pm EDT Arts & Entertainment Celebrate our exhibition We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965–85 with acclaimed poet, novelist, activist, and…

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  • Enemies at the Gate (David Icke)

    / September 27, 2016

    Por favor, lea Enemigos en La Puerta September 2016   I spent all day last Saturday from ten o’clock in the morning to after ten o’clock at night (with a break for lunch,…

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  • Gather & To the Police – Poems and Videos

    / December 14, 2014

    Júntense and To the Po’lice|A la Policía     Alice Walker – Gather     Gather ©2014 by Alice Walker for  Carl Dix and Cornel West It is still hard to believe that…

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  • Gather – Poem and Video

    / December 14, 2014

    Alice Walker – Gather   Gather ©2014 by Alice Walker for  Carl Dix and Cornel West It is still hard to believe that millions of us saw Eric Garner die. He died with…

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  • A Grievous Wrong Has Been Done to 5 of Our Cuban Brothers: Such Good Men Are Hard To Find

    / March 17, 2014

    A Grievous Wrong Has Been Done To 5 Of Our Cuban Brothers:  Such Good Men Are Hard To Find ©2014 by Alice Walker It was an odd sensation in London recently to be…

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  • Women’s History Month: Faces of Feminism

    / March 11, 2013

    Faces of Feminism Video   Source: Open Road Media   Alice appears at 1:16 in the video:

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  • Stéphane Hessel, Presente: One Reward of a Just Life is to Die Peacefully in One’s Sleep

    / February 27, 2013

    Stéphane Hessel, one of the great old men of the world still standing, inspired all of us who participated in the Russell Tribunal on Palestine over the last several years.  He died peacefully…

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  • Video: Alice Walker talks about “Long Distance Revolutionary”

    / January 16, 2013

    Please see this remarkable film when it opens in New York City at the Cinema Village on February 1st, 2013. https://mumia-themovie.com

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  • One Billion Rising Logo 2013

    Video: A Billion Women Rising – Dance is Love Generated By Self

    / January 16, 2013

    Visit website: http://onebillionrising.org/

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  • Video: Accepting the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Award

    / January 2, 2013

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  • Native American Activist Leonard Peltier’s Jailhouse Plea for Long-Denied Clemency

    / December 13, 2012

    Leonard Peltier is someone whose unjust suffering has been present in my consciousness for all of the 37 years he has been in prison.  I’ve marveled at his poetry, his paintings, his deep…

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  • Video: SAYING GOOD-BYE TO WENDY

    / December 10, 2012

    On September 22, 2012, I lost my literary agent of four decades, Wendy Weil, of the Wendy Weil Agency, in New York City.  Wendy died suddenly, unexpectedly, of a heart attack.  She was at…

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  • Video: Creativity Conversation with Alice Walker, Pearl Cleage, & Valerie Boyd

    / October 22, 2012

    Filmed October 2, 2012 Emory University Atlanta-based novelist and playwright Pearl Cleage joins writer Alice Walker for a conversation that focuses on their creative influences, the writers they read, and how they’ve been…

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  • Women Rising, Obama, and the 2012 Election

    / September 28, 2012

    30th Anniversary and Legacy of “The Color Purple” Special Edition of Democracy Now! “Democratic Womanism” Legacy of “The Color Purple”: Special Edition of Democracy Now! Interview with Alice Walker in 3 segments. 1.…

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Alice’s Highlighted Posts

  • May 11, 2022, Israeli soldiers shot and killed 51-year-old Palestinian-American Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Shireen Abu Akleh 2022-05-11Nurit Peled-Elhanan: killing, evicting, murdering – Jewish routine
  • song for all beings full live concert 2017Song For All Beings, Jennifer Berezan et al
  • The Medicine Blow
  • A BOOK WORTH THE TREES Wild Tree Press 1980s“A Book Worth the Trees,” Wild Trees Press, 1980s.”
  • "Your purpose is to be yourself. You don’t have to run anywhere to become someone else You are wonderful just as you are" Thich Nhat HanhPresente! Truly. ~aw
  • Winne Mandela and Desmond TutuCHOOSE FRIENDSHIP
  • Kaleo and Alice, Looking, 2010 or so“Gracias a la Vida” lyrics
  • 37 Ambulances Delivered to Gaza video photo 2021-12-05No Distance Will Ever Divide Us: Palestine Is In the Heart

Recent Posts

  • Nurit Peled-Elhanan: killing, evicting, murdering – Jewish routine
  • Pale Face, Forked Tongue, Wasichu* i.e. Fat Taker: Thoughts On Being Slandered
  • Happy Birthday Mumia Abu-Jamal/ April 24
  • MY RENEGADE GARDEN IN CAREYES
  • Gathering Blossoms Under Fire, The Journals of Alice Walker | Edited by Valerie Boyd
  • Standing in the Ring of Life: Pub day April 12th 2022
  • Ketanji Brown Jackson ~ Celebrating her nomination U.S. Supreme Court!
  • For All Beloveds Born in the Willing Springtime of March!
  • Code Pink – Open letter: Solidarity with Russian anti-war protestors
  • Song For All Beings, Jennifer Berezan et al
  • As Bad(d) As It Gets: Valerie and Her Sisters
  • The Medicine Blow

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