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    • Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart: A Novel
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    • The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult
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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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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 (possibly coming soon!) to get my latest entries, and most of all, explore.


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Celebrating Life

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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 

  • Cuba needs massive help to recover! The ANSWER Coalition and the Hatuey Project appeal

    / October 1, 2022

    Hurricane Ian has devastated Cuba’s western provinces of Pinar del Río, Mayabeque and Artemisa. All of Cuba was without electrical power for two days. For six hours the hurricane passed slowly over Cuba, causing…

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  • Sunflower 2022

    Pale Face, Forked Tongue, Wasichu* i.e. Fat Taker: Thoughts On Being Slandered

    / May 3, 2022

    Cara Pálida, Lengua Bífida, Wasichu, es decir, Asolador: Pensamientos sobre ser calumniada Chris Hedges Report: Alice Walker & the Price of Conscience  |  Chris Hedges Reporte: Alice Walker El Precio de a Conciencia…

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  • Alice Walker MY RENEGADE GARDEN IN CAREYES 2022-04

    MY RENEGADE GARDEN IN CAREYES

    / April 16, 2022

    MI RENEGADO JARDÍN EN CAREYES (Photo by Manuel Vejar Castenada) I Had Only A Month ©2022 by Alice Walker (Especially for GFB who would have been appalled.) I had only a month some…

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  • 77 year Yelena Osipova Anti-war protestor & artist

    Code Pink – Open letter: Solidarity with Russian anti-war protestors

    / March 7, 2022

    Carta abierta: Solidaridad con los protestantes antibelicistas rusos – por Code Pink   Code Pink – Open letter: Solidarity with Russian anti-war protestors Source credit for this open letter: Code Pink ”Add your…

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  • Kaleo and Alice, Looking, 2010 or so

    “Gracias a la Vida” lyrics

    / December 27, 2021

    Kaleo and Alice, self portrait 2010 or so, Looking. “Gracias a la vida” (Spanish for “Thanks to life” or “Thanks be to life“) is a song written, composed and performed by Chilean Violeta…

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  • Bell Hooks, ¡presente!

    / December 16, 2021

    Bell Hooks, ¡presente! bell hooks, presente! ©2021 by Alice Walker I told Jesus, it would be all right, if I changed my name. -Spiritual Beloved bell, though distant we are not apart.  We…

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  • The Love Songs of W.E.B. DuBois by Honoree Fannone Jeffers

    / September 15, 2021

    LAS CANCIONES DE AMOR DE W.E.B. DUBOIS PORHONOREE FANNONE JEFFERS The Love Songs of W.E.B. DuBois by Honoree Fannone Jeffers ©2021 by Alice Walker It was at the Drugstore rack in Eatonton (Georgia)…

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  • Marianne-Williamson-Zainab-Salbi-Women-and-War-September-11-2021.png

    To the Feminine leadership in us all. Thank you Zainab and Marianne

    / September 11, 2021

    A Sangrienta Retirada Estadounidense de Afganistan y La Persecución de Julian Assange: Una Entrevista con John Pilger ¿por Qué Biden Está Enjuiciando A Assange Por Contar La Verdad Sobre Afganistán?| Opinión Daniel Ellsberg,…

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  • high on the hog Alice Walker Stephen Satterfield

    High on the Hog, Braiding Sweetgrass, The Moor’s Account

    / July 1, 2021

    Stephen Satterfield High On The Hog is one of many distinct gifts to our growth and enlightenment during this peculiar time of angst and confusion.  I watched it with a niece whose father,…

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  • Photograph Martin Luther King at Communist Training School

    Gifts of Spirit: Thoughts On Being Canceled

    / June 19, 2021

    Martin Luther King at Highlander Folk School Gifts of Spirit: Thoughts On Being Canceled ©2021 by Alice walker ‘The Color Purple’ author Alice Walker to deliver keynote address at HVCC despite controversies Pulitzer-winning…

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  • What Are Human Beings? ©2021 by Alice Walker

    / April 29, 2021

    We are the Ones   We Have Been Waiting For ~ June Jordan, poet, 1936-2002: Beloved and deeply missed. APRIL What Are Human Beings? ©2021 by Alice Walker What are human beings? Whatever we…

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  • Cicely. 1924-2021

    / January 28, 2021

    With your great skill, and compassion: Thank you for helping us bear this look in our eyes. ~aw Con su gran habilidad y compasión: Gracias por ayudarnos a tener esta mirada en nuestros…

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  • “I may not get there with you.” Voting For Those Who Could Not. Abrams, Warnock, Ossoff

    / December 12, 2020

    “I may not get there with you.”* Voting for Those Who Could Not: Standing With Those Who Know For Stacy Abrams, Raphael Warnock, and Jon Ossoff ©2020 by Alice Walker The Promised Land Is…

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  • Thank you, Brother

    / November 24, 2020

      NOVEMBER Lest we forget: This is who we are. Thank you, Brother ~AW    

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  • Thanksgiving: I Am Thankful For Artists; I Am Thankful For Books

    / November 30, 2019

    Día de Acción de Gracias y  Por llegar: Pensamientos sobre los libros que siguen                                       …

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Alice’s Highlighted Posts

  • Sabby Sabs Logo black with Oink LettersWhy Are We So Blessed? Queen Sabby and Queen Candace, Queen Brianha and Queen Joy, and Queen Kim! Queen Laurissa! Queen Susan! Queen Whitney and Queen Amy!
  • 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.
  • “The Ethiopian Bible Preserves”The Jesus We Knew Was There
  • World Kitchen Central CodePink Cuba 2026What weapon is this???
  • Owl sitting on a branchWhose Little Human Are You?
  • Humanity Invented A “God” Much Like Itself
  • China delivers emergency riceImagine…
  • Beautiful Khoisan mother holding her childIt Is Not Too Late…

Recent Posts

  • A Poem For Mothers of the Trafficked and the Slain
  • We’ve Been Waiting…
  • Hope
  • Removing Tyrants: A Message From Cherokee Ancestors
  • The Hopi Remember The Trees
  • Fiel: ¡Feliz cumpleaños Fidel!
  • Nothing is Stronger Than a Circle
  • Meridian
  • We Could Have Been A Contender! The Manhood of Michelle Obama
  • A FEATHER AND A FORK ~ Crystal Wahpepah with Amy Paige Condon
  • On Nolan, Nolan Xavier Wells and All children are our responsibility.
  • 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?
  • The Polygamist
  • Possessing the Secret of Joy
  • Mother Earth Teaching by Wendsler Nosie Sr – Apache

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  • 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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