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This is why: Credo Mutwa and David Icke: Temples of Peace [Video]

Temples of Peace This is why.   ###

21st December Happy Solstice!

    21st December   Happy Solstice! The Light is Returning to a Darkened World. If there are indeed as many universes as there are grains of sand, let us resolve in the New Year to work on diminishing our narcissism and be content to realize it isn’t all about us. ~A.W.

To the Also Curious

A LOS TAMBIÉN CURIOSOS To the Also Curious Copyright 2018 By Alice Walker I was asked, in writing, by the NYTs BY THE BOOK “What is on your nightstand?”  I replied with the titles of the pile of books that were currently on mine; all of them in some state of read, to read, or read more »

Alice Walker: By the Book New York Times December 2018

Reprint from: New York Times BY THE BOOK Alice Walker: By the Book Credit Illustration by Jillian Tamaki Dec. 13, 2018 The author, most recently, of the poetry collection “Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart” feels a duty to read about countries devastated by war: “The suffering, usually for the most vulnerable, never ends.”   read more »

Is Anger Useful? “What To Do With An Arrow In Your Heart” (Audio Series)

“Writer Alice Walker has been thinking about how anger co-exists with peace. She spoke with Shannon Henry Kleiber about her new book of poems, “Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart,” and how she works on healing herself when she’s been hurt by others.”  From ttbook.org    What To Do With An Arrow In Your read more »

Listen to / Escucha a: Alice Walker reading Mother of Trees, Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart

  Audio of Alice reading from   The Mother of Trees Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart     Audio book purchase links:    Audible   |   Google Play   |   iTunes    

Poem Of Course He Said Nigger

Of Course He Said Nigger Copyright 2018 by Alice Walker Of course he said nigger You would too If you hung out with the niggers He surrounds himself with When you’re not looking, In all their gold chains Wristwatches And teeth. That’s how they talk. Grow up. Stop talking About “the N word” As if read more »

An Evening with Alice Walker & Desert Rose – World Peace DayTAKING THE ARROW OUT OF THE HEART: The Morning After!

TAKING THE ARROW OUT OF THE HEART An Evening with Alice Walker & Desert Rose World Peace Day Friday, September 21, 2018 7:30 PM “In this time of sorrow, when so many are reeling from the pain of earth loss, of beauty’s destruction, of oppression and challenge of every sort, I have felt encouraged and read more »

An Evening with Alice Walker & Desert Rose – World Peace Day TAKING THE ARROW OUT OF THE HEART – Sept 21, 2018

TAKING THE ARROW OUT OF THE HEART An Evening with Alice Walker & Desert Rose World Peace Day Friday, September 21, 2018  7:30 PM “In this time of sorrow, when so many are reeling from the pain of earth loss, of beauty’s destruction, of oppression and challenge of every sort, I have felt encouraged and read more »

Raising A Memorial To The Confederate Soldier Who Did Not Want To Go To War

Raising A Memorial To The Confederate Soldier Who Did Not Want To Go War Copyright 2018 by Alice Walker I have been so impressed by the black women who are at the forefront of the effort to remove the statues of Confederate soldiers from public squares and college campuses that I could be hugging on read more »