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Warrior Marks The Film
CREDITS: Warrior Marks (1994) Director & Producer – Pratibha Parmar Executive Producer – Alice Walker pratibhaparmar.com
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The Ecowomanist Theology of Rev. Dr. Melanie L. Harris
Credit | Audio Source of Replay: Wonder Cabinet Podcast, The Ecowomanist Theology of Rev. Dr. Melanie L. Harris 22 Aug 2026 The Ecowomanist Theology of Rev. Dr. Melanie L. Harris A founder of ecowomanism on Black ancestral land wisdom, generational memory and healing through…
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“An Humble Woman,” Zimbabwean artist(s) unknown.
“An Humble Woman,” Zimbabwean artist(s) unknown. Our identity is encoded in our recognition of things. This morning, looking at sculptures I have from Zimbabwe, I realized this powerfully. These artists, names unknown (whose work I bought from a former white settler in Zimbabwe…
- What Makes An Elder Happy?
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Gardening the Soul
I regret I am not able to give you this medicine directly. Without cost. It can be found on Audible. ~aw
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Sister/Brother Mule (Hermana Mula/Hermano Mulo)
Hermana Mula/Hermano Mulo Sister/Brother Mule As the youngest in a family of ten, I inherited a father who was worn out. I treasure the vague memory of him doing the foxtrot for me when I was a toddler and making me laugh. I also recall him putting cooling lily leaves around my…
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A Poem For Mothers of the Trafficked and the Slain
A Poem For Mothers of the Trafficked and the Slain by Alice Walker (mid-Nineties) After suffering Through what I Believed I could Not survive The rag That was My heart Became A flag. ***
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We’ve Been Waiting…
Thank you, people rising. Solidarity forever. ~aw
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Willie Lee Walker
“All I have is my children.” ~ Willie Lee Walker Happy Birthday, September 9t h – my father, Willie Lee Walker, of Putnam County, Georgia. Born in 1909, and passed on, in 1973, to some place as beloved, I hope. He was 64 years old. In this photograph he is standing in front and…
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“ Gloria, Beloved Sister”
One thing is certain: She knew what love is: Compassion and Labor for the happiness of others, and for one’s self.~aw Una cosa es cierta: ella sabía lo que es el amor: Compasión y Trabajo por la felicidad de los demás y de uno mismo~ aw Us. August 11th, 2026 Gloria, Beloved…
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Hope
Hope ©2011 by Alice Walker Hope never to covet the neighbors’ house with the fragrant garden from which a family has been driven by your soldiers; mother, father, grandparents, the toddler and the dog now homeless: huddled, holding on to each other, stunned and friendless…
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Removing Tyrants: A Message From Cherokee Ancestors
The United States is at war with a country, Iran, that some believe will eventually bomb the United States, as it has been bombed by the United States. It is said that it now has bombs that can reach New York City, and Washington, D.C. Which means it can destroy the Smithsonian,…
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The Hopi Remember The Trees
The Hopi Remember the Trees The Last Hopi Elder Who Remembered the Old Forest — What He Said the Trees Really Were (1889) Because I love trees it makes me happy to know they were once big as mountains. This Hopi elder’s teaching also reminds me of a tree I once dreamed, or tried…
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Fiel: ¡Feliz cumpleaños Fidel!
Faithful: Happy Birthday Fidel! So you would have been a hundred today, August 13, 2026. But in el futuro you will be hundreds! Imagine. Like heroes of earlier revolutions the people will think of your love for them. They will tell stories and sing songs and wave the flag that…
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Nothing is Stronger Than a Circle
Nothing is Stronger Than a Circle Which is Why, as Black Elk Teaches us, Everything Tries to Be Round Thoughts on the Russell Tribunal re: International Corporate Complicity in the Destruction of the People of Palestine Copyright©2010 by Alice Walker November 19, 2010 In many of…