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melg0378's review
4.0
A very affirming book to ignite the light within to keep fighting for the world we desire to live in.
olivesoup's review
5.0
This book!!!!!!!!!!!! Please everyone go read - Walker speaks to much of the unspoken darkness deep within the history of the US and beautifully sheds light, hope, love, strength, understanding, peace
mslibrarynerd's review
4.0
Alice Walker is an amazing woman and spiritual fountain of wisdom. She makes me want to laugh and cry at the same time.
okayalej's review against another edition
5.0
This book reminds me of the quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson: "The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions." I feel as though my mind has been stretched so greatly by all of Alice Walker's wisdom, her meditations, and her observations on the world around us.
I revisited my own meanings I attributed to Cuba, the death of Martin Luther King Jr., birth, and how Whiteness impacts all who are touched by it. I sat with Walker's words on practice. Now is not the time to go with out a practice. Whether that be religious, meditative, movement, writing, walking, dancing, singing, reading, or anything worth doing to live toward a healing existence.
Even though this book was written for and in spirit of Black peoples everywhere, I felt that we could all learn more about ourselves through the lens of caring that Alice Walker says is innate to Black peoples everywhere. I felt a hope for the Indigenous ancestors within my blood line when Alice spoke to the hardships experienced by both Native people and Black people at the hands of White supremacy. I felt humbled and grateful for my teachers throughout my life. I felt ready for something new. Inspired would be an easy word to use, but Alice Walker has given the world a gift with her writing. A gift that we should all be grateful to have received. I will be referencing her words for the rest of my life.
I revisited my own meanings I attributed to Cuba, the death of Martin Luther King Jr., birth, and how Whiteness impacts all who are touched by it. I sat with Walker's words on practice. Now is not the time to go with out a practice. Whether that be religious, meditative, movement, writing, walking, dancing, singing, reading, or anything worth doing to live toward a healing existence.
Even though this book was written for and in spirit of Black peoples everywhere, I felt that we could all learn more about ourselves through the lens of caring that Alice Walker says is innate to Black peoples everywhere. I felt a hope for the Indigenous ancestors within my blood line when Alice spoke to the hardships experienced by both Native people and Black people at the hands of White supremacy. I felt humbled and grateful for my teachers throughout my life. I felt ready for something new. Inspired would be an easy word to use, but Alice Walker has given the world a gift with her writing. A gift that we should all be grateful to have received. I will be referencing her words for the rest of my life.