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    • Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart: A Novel
    • Possessing the Secret of Joy
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    • Why War Is Never a Good Idea
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    • 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
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    • THE Chicken Chronicles: A Memoir
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I love this quote of his holiness: Compassion is the radicalism of our time.

About Alice

Internationally Celebrated Writer, Poet and Activist.


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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 

  • To Vote- Say I Love You Every Day: With Your Mouth

    / October 28, 2020

    Para Votar – Di Te Amo Todos Los Días: Con Tu Boca Say it to the Pangolin. And the Zimbabwean.  Photo: National Geographic Dígaselo al Pangolín. Y el Zimbabuense. Foto: National Geographic  …

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  • The (Our) Social Dilemma & a Poem – Outrunning the Machine

    / October 28, 2020

    El (nuestro) dilema social     The (Our) Social Dilemma is without doubt one of the most important documentaries ever made, though a gratuitous slap down of “conspiracy theorists” sows the division it is…

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  • (Defend Julian Assange) Gabriel Assange Wants To Count! ©2020 by Alice Walker

    / October 2, 2020

    ¡Gabriel Assange Quiere Contar!      (Defend Julian Assange)   Gabriel Assange Wants To Count! ©2020 by Alice Walker   When Gabriel Assange grows up I want him to know that I was…

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  • Dying Wise ©2020 by Alice Walker

    / August 28, 2020

    Morir Sabio Dying Wise ©2020 by Alice Walker I have experienced Life, so far, As a full on miracle; No matter the slings and arrows Always to be endured On a path of…

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  • New Poems for Ede : For Human Babies and Yorkies : The World Is Not Safe

    / August 20, 2020

    Nuevos Poemas Para Ede* August 20, 2020   New Poems for Ede   For Human Babies and Yorkies The World Is Not Safe © 2020 by Alice Walker For human babies And Yorkies…

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  • An Unknown Soilder ‘You are here profiting off of our f—— pain’: A New York City woman gives a powerful speech to demonstrators destroying neighborhoods

    / August 8, 2020

    La Soldado Desconocida August 6, 2020   The Unknown Soldier ©2020 by Alice Walker I have been wondering Where the soldiers are The ones that did not come back In body bags. Or…

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  • there is a daughter poem for AOC – Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez 2020

    / August 5, 2020

    hay una hija       there is a daughter for AOC © 2020 by Alice Walker there is a daughter taking the floor there is a daughter standing in the light of…

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  • The Bitter Poetry of America – LA AMARGA POESÍA DE AMÉRICA

    / June 5, 2020

    LA AMARGA POESÍA DE AMÉRICA More to come. Yes. ~AW   THE BITTER POETRY OF AMERICA “Mama”by George Floyd These are the last words of George Floyd, a 46-year-old man who died as…

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  • Let Me Take the Blame; I Have Learned I Can Carry It

    / June 1, 2020

    Dejen Que Carque Con La Culpa   Let Me Take the Blame ©2020 by Alice Walker Let me take the blame; I have learned I can carry it. Soon we will both Be…

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  • It Is Long, It is Repetitive ©2020 by Alice Walker

    / May 31, 2020

    Es Largo, Es Reiterativo   Alice Walker, moon shoes, fly.  Early 90s. Photo by Jean Weisinger   It Is Long, It is Repetitive ©2020   by Alice Walker As much as we might like…

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  • I Am Not Waiting ©2020 by Julia Fuhrman Davis

    / March 29, 2020

    I Am Not Waiting ©2020 by Julia Fuhrman Davis   I am not Waiting I am not waiting until social distancing is over I am not waiting until Ohio’s “Stay at Home” order…

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  • You Ask Me Where Can We Go ~ poem ©2018 by Alice Walker

    / May 18, 2018

    Me Preguntas Adónde Podemos Ir   You Ask Me Where Can We Go ©2018 by Alice Walker You ask me where can we go And I can say only one place With certainty:…

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    Wherever You Are Grieving

    / November 20, 2015

    Wherever You Are Grieving ©2015 by Alice Walker It does not matter to me: Wherever you are grieving Whether Paris, Damascus, Jerusalem, Bamako, Mexico or Beirut or New York City My heart, too,…

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  • Imagine

    / September 28, 2015

    Imagine ©2015 by Alice Walker We can only imagine What these two- Francis and Fidel- Really had to say To each other. The Pope wondering Who really is the Holy Father here, Since…

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  • Refugees ©2015 by Alice Walker

    / September 10, 2015

    Refugees ©2015 by Alice Walker They would not be running to us If we were not chasing them With the guns and bombs and rockets we sold To crazy people: Out of their…

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  • One Country Quietly Won This Entire War _ Prof.Dr.MarandiTo Be Talked To As If We Have Sense: Thank you, Dr. Marandi, for teaching us who wins wars and why
  • Shahid Bolsen Greater Israel CoverBitter Medicine: They Don’t know What Love Is.
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  • Humanity Invented A “God” Much Like Itself
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  • Fiel: ¡Feliz cumpleaños Fidel!
  • Nothing is Stronger Than a Circle
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  • We Could Have Been A Contender! The Manhood of Michelle Obama
  • A FEATHER AND A FORK ~ Crystal Wahpepah with Amy Paige Condon
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  • Thank you, South Africa
  • Why Write Speech You Will Never Hear Again? To Enjoy It.
  • The Best Thing I Learned at Sarah Lawrence
  • A Poem Started Years Ago
  • Sharing My Love of Shamanic Huichol Art
  • How is it the whole world cannot stop evil?
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  • Mother Earth Teaching by Wendsler Nosie Sr – Apache

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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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