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We really need these two. ~aw
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Oppressed Hair Puts a Ceiling On the Brain
OPPRESSED HAIR PUTS A CEILING ON THE BRAIN A talk given on Founders’ Day, April 11, 1987, at Spelman College in Atlanta. From Living By The Word: Selected Writings 1973-1987 by Alice Walker. As some…
Inner Landscape
Inner Landscape ©2013 by Alice Walker For S and C We have not seen each other in over a decade; your son is very tall, you say, your daughter, learning to ride…
The Magic of Women
Dear Sisters at the University of Michigan, I accept your invitation to visit with you in the coming year: I believe we have all learned something from our efforts to reach out to…
The Butler Did It
The Butler Did It ©2013 by Alice walker Lee Daniels’ The Butler was received in my neighborhood by a packed house, all colors and kinds, almost all of them, at different…
Later We Would Miss You So Much: Remembering August 28, 1963
LATER WE WOULD MISS YOU SO MUCH © 2013 by Alice Walker For Chelsea Manning Later we would miss you so much. But on that day we had you with us &…
The Mud of Being
Alice carrying a sculpture of pregnant African women in a circle, dancing. Necks of Clay©2013 by Alice Walker Someone said to me: Oh, stop that! He has feet of clay. This person’s clay…
Why Women Need Their Own Money
In Case You’ve Ever Wondered How It Is Done: Censorship by Purse StringAn Invitation to speak at the 50th Anniversary for the Center for Education of Women at the University of Michigan has…
David Icke: The People’s Voice
Recently I’ve taken a few knocks for my liking of David Icke. Well, I can’t help liking him, he’s got cojones for days. Seen many of those lately not backed up by…
Thoughts On Our Sorrow: Trayvon Martin and Troy Davis
Thoughts On Our Sorrow: Troy Davis and Trayvon Martin © 2013 by Alice Walker I deliberately watched none of the Zimmerman trial, just as I have deliberately not read a draft of a…
A Yellow Rose for Texas: Sharing the poem “Cowgirl Filibuster” by Lisa L. Moore
Cowgirl Filibuster Couplets for heroic Texas women June 26, 2013 Word got out about the bad bill. College students packed up their bikinis, went back to Austin to tell those…
Removing Tyrants: A Message From Cherokee Ancestors
The United States is at war with a country, Iran, that some believe will eventually bomb the United States, as it has been bombed by the United States. It is said that it…
Fiel: ¡Feliz cumpleaños Fidel!
Faithful: Happy Birthday Fidel! So you would have been a hundred today, August 13, 2026. But in el futuro you will be hundreds! Imagine. Like heroes of earlier revolutions the people will think…
Nothing is Stronger Than a Circle
Nothing is Stronger Than a Circle Which is Why, as Black Elk Teaches us, Everything Tries to Be Round Thoughts on the Russell Tribunal re: International Corporate Complicity in the Destruction of the People…
We Could Have Been A Contender! The Manhood of Michelle Obama
Michelle Obama as a child. We Could Have Been a Contender! (Thank you, Marlon Brando): The “Manhood” of Michelle Obama It has been many things to see the fascination numerous white men have…
A FEATHER AND A FORK ~ Crystal Wahpepah with Amy Paige Condon
Like Buddhist Tibetans and the Three Wise Men of Christian mythology, I have felt my way to my ancient identity by my own efforts. And through dreams and synchronicities. The mythical, to some,…
On Nolan, Nolan Xavier Wells and All children are our responsibility.
SOBRE NOLAN | Todos los niños On Nolan Nolan Xavier Wells was a seriously good-looking young man. A perfect blend of his handsome dark father and his very cute, curly…
Thank you, South Africa
Thank you, South Africa, for remembering how it has felt to face a people’s devastation seemingly all alone. To have learned valiant soul by valiant soul that you were not unaccompanied in your…
Why Write Speech You Will Never Hear Again? To Enjoy It.
Why write Speech you will never hear again? To Enjoy It. ©2016 by Alice Walker In the first third of The Color Purple it is clear we are dealing with people who have…
The Best Thing I Learned at Sarah Lawrence
The Best Thing I Learned At Sarah Lawrence ©2016 by Alice Walker During my senior year at Sarah Lawrence College I wrote my “contract” (thesis) on the anti-Nazi, anti-Fascist rebel combatant and war…
A Poem Started Years Ago
A Poem Started Years Ago By Alice Walker In a few years I will be eighty. Eighty. What does it feel like to grow old? Well, it’s true you get tired a lot…
Sharing My Love of Shamanic Huichol Art
The name of the shaman/ creator of this art – partly depicting animals responding to earthquake – is on the back of this “painting,” that is too heavy for me to take…
How is it the whole world cannot stop evil?
Nir Hason Haaretz Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya is now in immediate life-threatening danger. We knew this moment was coming but it does not make it any easier. Nir Hasson of Haaretz הארץ reports:…
