Alice Walker's Blog, page 6

This Is What I Loved About You. Saying Goodbye to Quincy Jones

The way you stretched yourself to embrace us all. ~aw Akusua, Gordon, Oprah, Alice, Quincy, Roberto. 1985.  On that midnight train track in Georgia.

Thank You Jill Stein and Rudolph Ware for Being

It was such a joy to vote for these two. Winning is an interesting notion. The best kind is internal. ~aw

“I think they deserve to lose…” Courage, Intelligence, and Self- Respect: Basic Norman Finkelstein…Bowing. aw

The Unbearable ( i.e. Intolerable) Goodness of Cuba

  I did not realize for a long time that Fidel Castro’s mother and father were not married.  That she was his cook on the sugarcane plantation her husband/master owned before they wed and Fidel was given his father’s name.  Fidel knew the evils of the plantation system inside out, which is why he so easily worked with peasants and why he was on their side. Why, when he cut sugar cane with them after the revolution it was not only to show solidarity, but because he knew how. Fidel is the one who ...

The Unbearable Goodness of Cuba

  I did not realize for a long time that Fidel Castro’s mother and father were not married.  That she was his cook on the sugarcane plantation her husband/master owned before they wed and Fidel was given his father’s name.  Fidel knew the evils of the plantation system inside out, which is why he so easily worked with peasants and why he was on their side. Why, when he cut sugar cane with them after the revolution it was not only to show solidarity, but because he knew how. Fidel is the one who ...

Must We Part in This Way? Our faces like flowers….

  The despair is shared, if for different reasons. Must we self-destruct as a species in such a senseless way? What did we think it meant: “weapons of mass destruction.”  Did we think “mass” did not include us?  ~aw

Must We Part in This Way? Your faces like flowers….

  The despair is shared, if for different reasons. Must we self-destruct as a species in such a senseless way? What did we think it meant: “weapons of mass destruction.”  Did we think “mass” did not include us?  ~aw

Goodbye, Sweet Zelie

Alice and Zelie Duvauchelle. 1997 or so. You are with the stars. The other stars. Thank you for bringing aloha everywhere you went.~aw

Meanwhile, What About South Africa? Was It All For This?

  Many of our brothers and sisters who struggled, fought, died, for the liberation of South Africa are long gone to their rest.  I bow to them, with tears of gratitude. This teaching by the remarkable Shahid Bolsen breaks the heart with information of the continued suffering and subjugation of South Africa’s people. The majority poor, still.  Uneducated, still. Health care a dream, still. ~aw

Black Men: The Beauty – and humor – of Your Awakening Amid the Terror of Our Global Situation

We have never had a party that stood -beyond convenience – for us. The two dominant ones certainly don’t. Is it possible to seek an alternative?  Yes! Find Dr. Stein and Dr. Ware!   Imagine: we could be talking about stuff that really matters.  Like genocide.  Or how about this: the possibility of nuclear annihilation.  Not even discussed on the campaign trail. aw