ACTIVISM WITH HEART AND SOUL with ALICE WALKER

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Speaking from the heart on a wide range of topics - poetry and writing, Mexico and the south, family and relationship, Buddhism and spiritual teachers, power and greed, politics and social change death and transformations, and much more - Walker addresses these challenging times and how to live in balance.  Her description of the beauty of solitude and having "hammock time" is captivating and reveals some of the source of her prolific creativity and personal integrity.  This dialogue speaks to everyone concerned with the future of our society, our nation and our planet. Includes programs #2963 and 2964.

Bio

Alice Walker one of the United States’ preeminent writers, is an award-winning author of novels, stories, essays, and poetry. In 1983, Walker became the first African-American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for fiction with her novel The Color Purple, which also won the National Book Award. In her public life, She is the eighth child of Georgia sharecroppers. After a childhood accident blinded her in one eye, she went on to become valedictorian of her local school, and attend Spelman College and Sarah Lawrence College on scholarships, graduating in 1965. Walker has worked to address problems of injustice, inequality, and poverty as an activist, teacher, and public intellectual. Her works are heartful reminders of the strengths of family, community, self-worth, nature, and spirituality.

Alice Walker’s books include:

• The Color Purple: reprint (Penguin Books 2019)
• The Temple of My Familiar (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1989 reprinted 202
• By the Light of My Father's Smile (Random House 1998)
• The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart (Random House 2001)
• Now Is the Time To Open Your Heart. (Ballantine Books 2005)
• In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose (Mariner Books; 2003)
• Possessing the Secret of Joy (The New Press, New Edition2008)
• Hard Times Require Furious Dancing: Poems (New World Library 2013)
• Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker, 1965–2000 (Simon and Schuster 2022)

She is also the author of three collections of short stories, three collections of essays, five volumes of poetry, and several children's books. 

Topics explored in this dialogue include:

• Where does creativity originate
•  How to embody spirit in social activism
• How you can benefit from "doing nothing"
•  What is "the raft" that takes us home
• How Earth's beauty teaches you to live in your fullness
• Where does creativity originate
• How to embody spirit in social activism
•  How you can benefit from "doing nothing"
• What is "the raft" that takes us home

Host: Michael Toms & Justine Willis Toms    Interview Date: 7/22/2002   Program Number: S980

Music Playlist

Music in this program is selections from
Praises for the World by Jennifer Berezan and Friends
available from <https://jenniferberezan.com/praises-for-the-world>