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The AI future for humanity and for nature looks more than bleak. Terrifying, actually.  It will feel liberating not to be here for its flowering.  This talk offers a deeply human response to…

To the Cuban Reader ©2014 by Alice Walker Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart is my seventh novel, and, unless I am mistaken, it is my last. I wrote it toward…

Our Wandering Lives:  Thoughts About The Color Purple ©2017 by Alice Walker My most free-spirited niece, who was born in Boston, thanked me recently for writing The Color Purple.  She said it gave…

                                                             Alice Walker  August 12, 2005 Karla Simcikova Mongolska 1427/14 70800 Ostrava –Poruba Czech Republic Dear Karla Simcikova: At first I thought your name was difficult to pronounce, because it was unfamiliar…

I have decided to publish thoughts, fragments, letters and other communications as they turn up on my computer, from years of offering what I have.  The only answer I have been able to…

  Recently I Wrote a Letter ©2012 by Alice Walker Recently I wrote a letter to Yediot publishers in Israel declining an offer they’d made to publish my novel The Color Purple. Though…

June   Who was Paule Marshall? A fierce, determined, daughter of immigrants from “the islands;” a writer of novels that explore worlds previously unknown, not even guessed at, by this Southerner. We met,…

Happy Birthday, Robert Allen, May 29th.  Thank you for editing The Black Scholar all those years;  for helping to build housing in Cuba, and encouraging me to visit; for writing amazing books about…

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…