Alice Walker's Blog

Having All the Money in the World, and Not Doing this. aw

It is not too late To love & adore The Khoisan- Also known As the Bushmen/People. Not too late To love ourselves Our smiles And love makings Our dances And paintings and Story tellings On every desert Sand & Stone; Our admiration of flowers And “wild” like us Animals; Our “Mongolian” eyes Deer brown skin/ And Our hair: Those Fetchingly Kissable Blessedly original Buddha knots. ***   For those of us in the diaspora, eons later, we remember and thank singer and inspirer, Miriam Makeba, who peppere...

There are no words. The history, the creativity,  the exuberance.  Even so, Happy Birthday, Martin Luther King, Jr. born January 15th.  This is some of what we feel for you, every day. ~aw

Copyright © 2026 by Alice Walker Looking at a butterfly Black and silver Glossy and intent: It was having A rendezvous With the scarlet Bougainvillea Near the pool. In & out Among the leaves Deep dives Among the petals It was intent. What are you after? I inquired. It ignored Me. All of life Was in its pursuit Of nectar Whereas I wondered: Bougainvillea is So dry! Does it even have Any sweet Wetness? Apparently so. The Butterfly Its wings tiny But Flashing Heroically, Probed on. It was not Fixat...

Arrest at the concord Navel Weapons Station in Concord, Ca. with solidarity companions Robert L. Allen and Belvie Rooks (not shown) and carrying Windela, a doll to represent the children targeted by US bombs.  Our homemade T shirts read:  Remember Port Chicago.~aw

Reprint: CODEPINK Statement Against U.S. Bombing Venezuela and Kidnapping President Maduro FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 3, 2026 Media Contact: Melissa Garriga | melissa@codepink.org “These are blatant and illegal acts of war by the Trump Administration.” CODEPINK Statement on the Bombing of Venezuela and the Kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. Last night, the United States government bombed civilian and military sites across Venezuela and illegally kidnapped Venezuelan President ...

Deleted: https://youtube.com/watch?v=MUUH00GzR... Other ways of coming home.  American*/ African. ~aw *Turtle Island.

  Our son and brother is not declaring war on dirt.  Dirt is precious.  But on the insult to dirt, which is filth.  Many miracles are happening in Africa, not the least in Burkina Faso, where Thomas  Sankara also taught that in the end nothing is more extraordinary than what we can accomplish ourselves. I can’t resist recommending the John Lennon song “Clean Up Time” to remind us of the one world we inhabit. And that cleaning up, in all its variations, can happen, and must happen, wherever we ar...