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All Things Censored
Amazon CA — Wonderful insight, but repetitive This wonderful collection of Mumia Abu-Jamal's essays is a priceless view into the life of an oppressed inner city black man. The horrible injustices done to these people are conveyed through Mumia's eloquent ...More…
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The Color Purple - 10th Anniversary Edition
Amazon CA — Magnificent book! This is the most magnificent books I have read. Filled with sadness and turmoil, so full of truth....so determined. I came from a life of abuse (child). Though I have read mostly memoirs like NIGHTMARES ECHO, I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD ...More…
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We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For: Light in a ...
Amazon.com — May not rock your world, but may light your path. I purchased this after hearing an on-air interview of Alice Walker by Amy Goodman on Pacifica Radio and enjoyed the journey through these essays. I encourage those intrigued by the title to take the plunge ...More…
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Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism
Amazon.com — Amazon.com Review Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple, is an international activist and self-professed womanist. This pleasing collection of short essays amounts to a very personal stroll through her psyche. Sharing touchstones and demons, she serves ...More…
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Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart: A Novel
Amazon.com — Disappointing I've enjoyed other books Ms. Walker has written but I didn't care for this one much. Lovers Kate and Yolo go separately on spiritual journeys. I found her meandering style in this novel difficult to follow. I liked reading her unique ...More…
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A Poem Traveled Down My Arm: Poems and Drawings
Amazon.com — Surprising depth in a small package Although at first glance this may seem like a thin gift book with only a few words per page and an occasional childlike drawing, it reveals a much greater depth of spirit and underlying thought than one might expect. ...More…
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In Her Hands: Craftswomen Changing the World
Amazon.com — A wonderful holiday gift for all my female friends In Her Hands: Craftswomen Changing the World is a gorgeous photojournalistic volume about women around the world who make indigenous crafts. The crafts, varied and wonderful as they are, are sold at ...More…
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Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth: New Poems
Amazon.com — Poems for the Soul I saw Ms. Walker read poems from this book last night in Los Angeles. She spoke of how she thought she was done with writing and then the poetry started one day. She described the return to poetry as a "spring" beginning to ...More…
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The Temple of My Familiar
Amazon.com — Masterful Book I was taken aback on some of the customer reviews and I felt the need to defend this extraordinary book."Temple of My Familiar" is more than an African-American feminist polemic or a deconstruction of Judeo-Christian values or a ...More…
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Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth
Amazon.com — Poems for the Soul I saw Ms. Walker read poems from this book last night in Los Angeles. She spoke of how she thought she was done with writing and then the poetry started one day. She described the return to poetry as a "spring" beginning to ...More…
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The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart
Amazon.com — Amazon.com Review Even a fickle reader of Alice Walker will find something to admire in The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart. This tender, elegiac collection of stories is based in part on her early marriage to a white man and her continuing puzzlement ...More…
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In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black Women
Amazon.com — Something I'll read over and over again...loved it A collection of short stories that I first read for a Black Literature class when I was in college in the '70....and here recently, shared it with my book club as our book of the month. Ms. ...More…