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What To Do With The Mind?

What To Do With The Mind? ©2017 by Alice Walker I have not been this depressed since President John Kennedy was assassinated; no, I have not been this depressed since Dr. Martin Luther King was assassinated.  No, I haven’t been this depressed since Malcolm X was assassinated.  No, I haven’t been this depressed since Bobby read more »

Fences

I sat watching FENCES twice. Mesmerized. Enchanted.  Loving everything about it. Including the many times Troy Maxson says “nigger,” all the inflections,  the many times he shows how crafty, beaten down, and crazily standing up, he is.  Denzel Washington’s acting demonstrates the faith of love: that we can bear to witness where we’ve stood, fallen, read more »

Sobonfu Somé

Sobonfu Somé You left us on the day women all over the world Are rising. Well, you rose too, sweetest Of sisters. You rose and I can see you smiling As you returned to the village Of Dano. The ancestors Who, as they are wont to do, Asked far too much of you, Are there read more »

PRAYER TO THE GREAT AWARENESS (For the awakening.)

PRAYER TO THE GREAT AWARENESS Copyright 2017 by Alice Walker January 21, 2017 (For the awakening.) I do not doubt that you are there and that I am also, in some future past time; and that together we are enjoying it all. And so I thank you, Great Awareness in which I also live, for read more »

The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen

The Sympathizer, by Viet Thanh Nguyen 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 read more »

December Month of Resistance We Refuse to Accept a Fascist America (2016)

https://refusefascism.org/we-refuse-t... I love the truth of this woman. She has always been standing where she stands now. Even though times are hard, how lucky we are to see this and to know what we are seeing. -AW Read and Sign theCall to Action to STOP Trump and Pence BEFORE they Come to Power. Join read more »

Don’t Miss: Born A Crime and The Fishermen

It is a great experience to find one’s self taken over by a book, and that was my experience ofBORN A CRIMEby Trevor Noah. There’s no more fascinating a relationship between mother and son in all of literature, to my mind, than that between Trevor and his mother, Patricia. I can only wonder if she read more »

The World is Waking Up around 2017 – By David Icke

I am very grateful for this man’s sincerity, brilliance, stamina. His is a path given to the very few. We might ask: Why is that? But perhaps there isn’t an answer. -AW

I Am Happy To Report I Am Not Going Anywhere!

Photo by Alice Walker I Am Happy To Report I Am Not Going Anywhere! 2016 by Alice Walker for Joan I am happy to report I am not going anywhere! That I am stuck like glue to this house, this window, this bed. To this view, that tree, yonder planets and also this one. I read more »

A Good Day To Die the inner Standing Rock

December 9, 2016 A Good Day To Die Copyright 2016 by Alice Walker the inner Standing Rock There comes a time in life when we realize it is okay to die. Right now, like this, in this moment. It is not suicidal this thought but comes rather from a sense of completion. It read more »