Anything We Love Can Be Saved
A Feminism, Memoir, Writing book. I love Alice Walker. The way she views things, her revolutionary spirit, her personal and...
In Anything We Love Can Be Saved, Alice Walker writes about her life as an activist, in a book rich in the belief that the world is saveable, if only we will act. Speaking from her heart on a wide range of topics--religion and the spirit, feminism and race, families and identity, politics and social change--Walker begins with a moving autobiographical essay in which she describes her own spiritual growth and roots in activism. She goes on to explore many important private and public issues: being a daughter and raising one, dreadlocks, banned...
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- Pages: 256 pages
- ISBN: 9780345407962 / 345407962
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This pleasing collection of short essays amounts to a very personal stroll through her psyche. Sharing touchstones and demons, she serves up a spirited defense of Winnie Mandela, accused of taking part in kidnapping and torture; a quest to mark the grave of Zora Neale Hurston, an "African AmerIndian" folklorist who chronicled the lives... I love Alice Walker. The way she views things, her revolutionary spirit, her personal and public activism. She makes me want to change and to learn things and to be a better person. She exposes me to new thoughts and feelings. This wasn't the best book I've read of hers (it's a compilations of articles previously published), but it... This is a book of essays. I found them uneven yet interesting. Her picture getting arrested as an activist gave me pride. Seeing her in the struggle reinforced my own sense of self. The sentence I marked on pg. xxv, she wrote speaking about her beloved friends. "But it is their struggle with the flaw, surprisingly endearing, and going...
