Alice Walker's Blog, page 10

The Tassajara Seven & Hip-Hop Dharma

Some of the best news is that there are always other ways to be.~awThe Tassajara Seven (Zen Buddhist Retreat): Carletta, Alice, Osho Zenju, Ofosu & Co. Missing from photo: Arrow the baby and his mother, Asia. Also Rev. Angel. June 2024 Photographer unknown.   Hip Hop Dharma.  By Ofosu. What do we learn?  Love remains a surprise. ~awr

Prayers for Arundhati Roy

“I’m A Woman Who Speaks With a Voice…” Sweet Honey This great spirit and writer, a true lover of India as well as of freedom and truth, must have our prayers.~aw

The State of Palestine

Thank you Scott Ritter for remaining sane and even uplifting as you ferry us across this treacherous river of grief. ~aw

Like Having a Daddy…Dr. Bobby Price

Our journey through the madness has been extraordinary. After blows that would fell anything standing, our light has seemed to dim. Elders have prayed to see a spark of the old flame of love and guidance.~aw Dr. Bobby Price

“For Us Cubans, Africa is Our Heart, Our Blood”

Struggle can make us beautiful, which is why the Cuban Revolution will always inspire. It is as if we begin to see the very backbone of ourselves, the spirit that makes us stand.~aw     Shared article By Víctor Dreke, Salim Lamrani  |  June 4, 2024 Source: Originally published by Z. Feel free to share widely. Image by Tumpatumcla~commonswiki, Creative Commons 4.0 Born into a modest family in Sagua la Grande in 1937, Víctor Dreke experienced first-hand the realities of pre-revolutionary Cuba, mar...

“I love Mexico.” ~aw

I love Mexico. ~aw           Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo: President-Elect

Black Woman Grad speech at Harvard. Being suppressed by media?

Video:  Student Speaker Shruthi Kumar |  Harvard Graduate 2024   |  May 25, 2024  |  7:41 min

If You Want To Visit Rumi

The Casa Madre garden at dusk. Photo by Rebecca Walker 2023 If you want to visit Where Rumi is buried Read his poems. ~aw (Unpublished journal   Copyright ©12/2017)

Susan Abulhawa: One of the Greats of Our Time ~bowing

Palestinian Writer Susan Abulhawa and Journalist Prem Thakker On Al Shifa

The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen (Reposting in May 2024)

2024-05-11: Republishing this post from 2017 The Sympathizer, by Viet Thanh Nguyen Copyright © 2017 by Alice Walker Was the Civil Rights Movement a politically orchestrated distraction from the wars on the citizens, lands and cultures of yellow people half a world away? We were distracted, some more than others, by assassinations and hangings, fire bombing of cars and houses, and the humiliating back and forth “progress” of “integration” via the long torturous march of Civil Rights cases through...