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Taking the Arrow Out of Your Heart with Alice Walker

Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple, shares her perspective on cultivating resilience and equanimity by mindfully tending to painful wounds caused by sorrow, anger or despair.

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Alice Walker
2017
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In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black Women

Admirers of The Color Purple will find in these stories more evidence of Walker's power to depict black women—women who vary greatly in background yet are bound together. One of the most important, grieving, graceful, and honest writers ever to come into print (June Jordan). Library Journal.

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Alice Walker
2003
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Alice Walker

Patricia Gras speaks with Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Color Purple.

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Alice Walker
2011
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Living by the Word: Selected Writings, 1973–1987

In meditative and passionate prose, these provocative essays explore feminist, environmental, and political issues and shed new light on racial debates, including the controversy surrounding Walker’s bestseller, The Color Purple.

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Alice Walker
1989
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Alice Walker: Writing What’s Right

The author of The Color Purple (and one of America’s most censured writers) tells Megan Labrise about finding wisdom in the songs of ancestors, why her acclaimed novel won’t be translated into Hebrew, and approaching writing in a priestly state of mind.

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Megan Labrise
2012
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