Alice Walker's Book Recommendations

"This is my favorite Angelou book. It is revelatory about a life of high adventure with her completely tough, gun-toting, charming, fearless and seductive mother."

"I was 11 when I read it and it encouraged me to believe the world was large, fascinating, and with incredibly interesting creatures in it! And I have discovered this to be true! So when I fall in love, for instance, it is never an impediment that the object of my affections might be, or seem to others to be, odd."

"In Icke’s books there is the whole of existence, on this planet and several others, to think about. A curious person’s dream come true."

"“Down and Out” is hilarious, with a humor quite unexpected in the otherwise seemingly somber Brother Blair. I listen to it often (a couple of places are dated and I have to skip) when I want to laugh."

"This novel is a rich celebration of mothers who have, in the age of crack cocaine, been forced to raise their own grandchildren, having lost their daughters to the epidemic. It is word perfect, sometimes hilarious, always honest to the life of its characters and to “ghetto” society. I don’t understand the title of the book or the book jacket art, but the book itself is essential reading for these and future times. I recommend audio for a captivating listening experience."

"In Daniel Black’s extraordinary book “The Coming,” we have an unprecedented opportunity to be with ancestors who probably never dreamed a scribe would one day appear to make their descendants not only imagine their plight but also, by being brought to tears by the narrative, gain access to an emotion that makes us one with them. Shamanic work."

"About a young boy in the Deep South who was raised until he was 8 as if he were a girl."

"I couldn’t sleep after reading this book. I felt a duty to read it, however, and others like it, to know without forgetting, that for countries devastated by war, often wars “we” cause, or extend by carpet bombing or laying of land mines, the suffering, usually for the most vulnerable, never ends."

"Alice Walker mentioned this book in a New York Times interview."

"My feeling of kinship with Jane Eyre has never waned."

"Moved me deeply."

"A recent inspiration."

"I don’t understand why Yates isn’t read in every English class."

"There are women in the story, but they lack the quality of energetic feminine connectivity with life that means inevitable change."

"Scary, but full of color and life."

"I am content, even happy with Alice Walker."