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February 16, 2013
Commentary: Human Race Get Off Your Knees: I couldn’t have put it better myself
I have been dragging along David Icke’s monumental book: Human Race Get Off Your Knees for the last month. It has been on my lap as I sat; been propped against pillows as I laid down; followed me to bathroom and poolside; and been, in fact, a formidable companion over these past several weeks. It more »
February 14, 2013
Poem: Why Peace is Always a Good Idea. From a new book of poems, Spring 2013: The World Will Follow Joy; Turning Madness into Flowers
WHY PEACE IS ALWAYS A GOOD IDEA ©2011 by Alice WalkerFor Jacqui Hairston, with love.Because you could plant peach treesAnd because of peaceYou could eat them in five or sixYearsPeaches not treesAnd your childrenCould eat themAfter you are gone!And because you could not seeA friend for a long, long timeButBecause there is peaceYou would not more »
Poem: Why Peace is Always a Good Idea. From a new book of poems, Spring 1213: The World Will Follow Joy; Turning Madness into Flowers
WHY PEACE IS ALWAYS A GOOD IDEA ©2011 by Alice WalkerFor Jacqui Hairston, with love.Because you could plant peach treesAnd because of peaceYou could eat them in five or sixYearsPeaches not treesAnd your childrenCould eat themAfter you are gone!And because you could not seeA friend for a long, long timeButBecause there is peaceYou would not more »
February 10, 2013
Essay: Encountering the Unknown Brazil from New Book THE CUSHION IN THE ROAD Spring, 2013
Photo by Monica Belaunde MonteroENCOUNTERING THE UNKNOWN BRAZILCopyright ©2012 by Alice WalkerSo there I was, on my way to a huge book festival in Brazilia and only then realizing, because friends casually mentioned it: Brazilia isn’t actually Brazil. It is a man-made city, only fifty-two years old, created to be the center of Brazilian government more »
February 7, 2013
Poem about the film Landfillharmonic: I Am Telling You, Discouraged One, We Will Win
I am telling youDiscouraged Onewe will win.And I will show youwhy.We are the childrenof the poorwho can makea sunrisewith our smilesand make musicout of trash.This is why humanityis worthloving.Fiercely.Passionately.Without a momentof holding back.I used to thinkit was onlyAfricansI loved so dangerouslythen I thought it wasIndians;then Mexicansthose dear onesso lied about.But no, it is all of more »
January 25, 2013
Video: Being Here
It is such a joy to see this young man, Burnell Taylor, talk about his experience of enduring and subsequently surviving hurricane Katrina, and moving on with life, and to hear him sing “I’m Here,” the song that Celie in The Color Purple sang when she achieved one of the best realizations of all: that more »
Being Here
It is such a joy to see this young man, Burnell Taylor, talk about his experience of enduring and subsequently surviving hurricane Katrina, and moving on with life, and to hear him sing “I’m Here,” the song that Celie in The Color Purple sang when she achieved one of the best realizations of all: that more »
January 16, 2013
Video: Alice Walker talks about “Long Distance Revolutionary”
Please see this remarkable film when it opens in New York City at the Cinema Village on February 1st, 2013. http://mumia-themovie.com/
January 13, 2013
Poem: Fullness of Heart (For Bab Al Shams/Gate of the Sun in Palestine)
Fullness of Heart (For the people of Bab Al Shams, Gate of the Sun encampment in Palestine). Watch the video below and glory in the magnificent voice of Bernice Johnson Reagon formerly of Sweet Honey in the Rock. When this voice is raised, pray it is raised for you.©2013 by Alice WalkerWe will never regrethaving more »
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