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Iphone Updates (Free subscription) | yesterday
To celebrate the placement of the archive of her life’s work at Emory, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker visited the university in March 2008 to explain her decision and grace those gathered with selected readings from her prose and poetry. A consummate storyteller, Alice Walker has written more than 23 books, including The Color Purple, [...]
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Britannica Blog (Free subscription) | 18/11/2008
Immediately after black and white, purple is my favourite colour. Why? Well . . . why not? As Alice Walker put it in The Color Purple, "I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it." Purple is sumptuous, bold, the colour of royalty. I think every girl should be a princess. Or at least treated like one.
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Burning Cane (Free subscription) | 15/11/2008
Alice Walker's Wise Counsel for Obama Jon Nichols, The Nation, November 11, 2008 Pulitizer Prize-winning author Alice Walker, student of people's historian Howard Zinn and literary instructor to a generation or so with books such as The Color Purple , has some advice for Barack Obama as he transitions from candidate to president. Walker's advice takes the form of an open letter to Obama. But she speaks...
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Burning Cane (Free subscription) | 15/11/2008
Obama Can Redeem the White House Amy Goodman, November 13, 2008 Common Dreams Alice Walker is the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. But Monday, I called her to talk about a true story. The Obamas had just visited the White House. The first African-American elected president of the United States had visited his soon-to-be residence, a house built by slaves. Walker told...
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Here There and Everywhere (Free subscription) | 15/11/2008
Another gem from my mentor and from the morning mail - I share this with you because I have never seen it before; it is from Alice Walker who wrote a controversial book in America called The Color Purple. An Amazing letter, by an amazing woman!! Dear Brother Obama, You have no idea, really, of how profound this [...]
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Vital Signs Blog (Free subscription) | 14/11/2008
There are some things just too maudlin, too muddled, too moronic to effectively satirize. Here's a sterling example from Pulitzer-Prize winning author, Alice Walker, in her open letter to Barack Obama. It's a letter, by the way, that reporter John Nichols from Madison's Capital Times calls "wise counsel." Nichols also calls Walker a "comfortably controversial, intellectually challenging and spiritually...
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Daily Dreamtime (Free subscription) | 14/11/2008
Alice Walker's Wise Counsel for Obama To: Undisclosed-Recipient A very good friend alerted me to this warm piece by the acclaimed writer Alice Walker of The Color Purple . It is a very worthwhile read. Regards, John Published on Thursday, November 13, 2008 by The Nation Alice Walker's Wise Counsel for Obama by John Nichols Pulitizer Prize-winning author Alice Walker, student of people's historian Howard...
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Hecate (Free subscription) | 14/11/2008
EACH ONE, PULL ONE (Thinking of Lorraine Hansberry) We must say it all, and as clearly Trying to bury us. As we can. For, even before we are dead, Were we black? Were we women? Were we gay? Were we the wrong shade of black? Were we yellow? Did we, God forbid, love the wrong person, country? Or politics? Were we Agnes Smedley or John Brown? But, most of all, did we write exactly what we saw, As clearly...
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Listics (Free subscription) | 12/11/2008
In Alice Walker’s open letter to Barack Obama on the day following the election, she says: I would advise you to remember that you did not create the disaster that the world is experiencing, and you alone are not responsible for bringing the world back to balance. A primary responsibility that you do have, however, is [...]
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LOFT965 (Free subscription) | 12/11/2008
“Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to get attention we do, except walk?” -Alice Walker
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NewPages Blog (Free subscription) | 12/11/2008
An Open Letter to Barack Obama By Alice Walker | TheRoot.com "Alice Walker on expectations, responsibilities and a new reality that is almost more than the heart can bear."
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Bill Totten's Weblog (Free subscription) | 12/11/2008
On expectations, responsibilities and a new reality that is almost more than the heart can bear by Alice Walker TheRoot.com (November 04 2008) Dear Brother Obama, You have no idea, really, of how profound this moment is for us. Us being the black people of the Southern United States. You think you know, because you are thoughtful, and you have studied our history. But seeing you deliver the torch so...
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Indybay newswire (Free subscription) | 11/11/2008
Tuesday, November 11, 2008 : One day after Barack Obama's first visit to the White House as President-elect, we speak to the Pulitzer-winning novelist Alice Walker. In a recent open letter to Obama, Walker writes, "Seeing you take your rightful place, based solely on your wisdom, stamina and character, is a balm for the weary warriors of hope, previously only sung about."
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Philippine Genre Stories (Free subscription) | 09/11/2008
Alice Walker , author of The Color Purple , writes a letter to U.S. President-Elect Barack Obama . There is much in the letter for us regular folk, too. An excerpt: Dear Brother Obama, You have no idea, really, of how profound this moment is for us. Us being the black people of the Southern United States. You think you know, because you are thoughtful, and you have studied our history. But seeing you...
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US Presidential race 2008 rea (Free subscription) | 09/11/2008
Author and activist Alice Walker took a moment last week to write a note to Barack Obama, relaying a few requests and offering some advice, such as to find time to relax amid the challenges and changes that await him and his family. READ THE WHOLE ITEM Related Entries November 8, 2008 Al Gore Back With a Plan November 8, 2008 Paying for Eight Years of Bush’s Delusions November 7, 2008 Obama Sorry...
