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Human Sunrise: A Letter to the Graduating Class of Naropa University

From the new book of poemsThe Cushion and the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to being in Harm’s Way:Spring 2013A Letter to the Graduating Class of Naropa Universityfrom Alice Walker May 11, 2007Someone told meOncethat Earthisthe only planetthat has mornings.The only planet that has mornings!This is an intriguing thought: and, how more »

What do I get for getting old? A Picture Story for the Curious!

From the new book of poems:THE WORLD WILL FOLLOW JOY: Turning Madness Into FlowersSpring 2013 Bicycle dress guard by Simeli Ananda What Do I Get For Getting Old? A Picture Story For The Curious! ©2011 by Alice Walker (You supply the pictures!) I get to meditatein a chair! Or against the wallwith my legsstretched out! more »

Every Child Here Is Mine

Norman Finkelstein, the one and only, sent this video of children in Gaza playing their instruments at the Gaza Music School. A fundraiser for this school is happening Saturday, April 20, at Fattoush Restaurant in San Francisco. Photo from the Gaza Music School

An Israeli Womanist (Honorary)

This world is filled with amazing people, and Nurit Peled-Elhanan is one of them. I over use the word amazing; I’m so aware of that! But what can you do?Colonizing Childhood and Zionist Pedagogy – Interview With Prof. Nurit Peled-Elhanan. Interviewed and Introduced by Singhe Atygalle. Nurit Peled-Elhanan is a professor of language and education more »

An Israeli Womanist

This world is filled with amazing people, and Nurit Peled-Elhanan is one of them. I over use the word amazing; I’m so aware of that! But what can you do?Colonizing Childhood and Zionist Pedagogy – Interview With Prof. Nurit Peled-Elhanan. Interviewed and Introduced by Singhe Atygalle. Nurit Peled-Elhanan is a professor of language and education more »

Free Angela Davis and All Political Prisoners

Free Angela Davis and All Political Prisoners is a stunning film. Directed by Shola Lynch who also directed Unbought and Unbossed, The Life of Shirley Chisholm, and executive produced by actor Jada Pinkett Smith, it is a priceless addition to the record we have of the struggles and courage of black political women. It centers more »

Taking Care of the Truth – Embedded Slander: A Meditation on the Complicity of Wikipedia

Taking Care of the TruthEmbedded Slander: A Meditation On the Complicity of Wikipedia©2013 by Alice WalkerBEGINNING IN THE LATE 1990s I became aware that my daughter, Rebecca Grant Walker Leventhal, aka Rebecca Walker, was, for her own purposes, making wildly untrue comments, in private talks, lectures, and in the media, about her childhood experiences with more »

The Universe Belongs to All of Us: Celia Sanchez and the Cuban Revolution

We Are Never Without Help©2013 by Alice WalkerWe are never without help.Look for it alwaysto surprise you.There is no end to the joyof discoveryjust as there is no endto amazement.Those who give their livesfor truth and breadfor the triumphantflash of a vividbougainvilleaeven as theydiein unspeakablewaysor whose last noticeis of a simple daisystill strivingin a corneracrossa more »

Celia Sanchez and the Cuban Revolution

We Are Never Without Help©2013 by Alice WalkerWe are never without help.Look for it alwaysto surprise you.There is no end to the joyof discoveryjust as there is no endto amazement.Those who give their livesfor truth and breadfor the triumphantflash of a vividbougainvilleaeven as theydiein unspeakablewaysor whose last noticeis of a simple daisystill strivingin a corneracrossa more »

BEAUTY IN TRUTH at Women of the World Festival, London, March 10, 2013

I have just returned from the UK premier of Pratibha Parmar’s film about my life, BEAUTY IN TRUTH, whose producer is her partner of thirty years, Shaheen Haq. London was at its most hospitable, and the Women of the World (WOW) Festival, at which the film was shown, was delightful and invigorating, even though I more »