BEAUTY IN TRUTH

 

 

 

ALICE WALKER

"Activism is the rent I pay for living on the planet."

Alice Malsenior Walker is an American author, poet, self-claimed womanist, and activist. She wrote the critically acclaimed novel The Color Purple (1982) for which she won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.

There is a documentary that debuted last spring about the life and work of author/activist Alice Walker, Beauty in Truth. "Her life, as presented by Parmar (Pratibha Parmar ), inspires with a truth that is as beautiful visually as it is spiritually. It’s a must-see." says Heidi Hutner of YES! magazine. I have yet to see it myself but after watching the trailer I wanted to find out more.

Trailer Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth

I wanted to share this Q & A discussion and the trailer here with you because so many of the topics relate to what we are sharing at WE WERE NOT BORN TO FOLLOW.

Listen in and see if you can find them

Alice Walker Q&A discussion: Beauty In Truth

I have made a short list of over fifty connections, words of wisdom and leadership lessons from a short look into the life of activist/author Alice Walker and I can say without any doubt that indeed there is BEAUTY IN TRUTH.  Would you have any additions to the list?  Share them with us!  

-I am a woman

-give

-begin

-claim your space

-she's talking to you

-be yourself

-care

-don't submit

-think differently

-bloom

-hope & justice

-women's stories

-I can do that

-I can never separate them

-it's a human movement

-welcome any new ideas

-it's about LOVE

-working mothers

-there's a reason we are here that is bigger than self

-making a way out of no way

-respect each other

-being aware

-choices

-spirit of creativity

-standing with

-commitment

-I am

-culture

-never about just you

-it takes a village, a community

-move your muscles

-sometimes you are the first

-work with

-pioneer

-human rights issue

-one point can frame the issue and make change

-we want to try

-feminism

-sisters

-where is loyalty?, solidarity?

-balancing advocacy and writing

-teaching

-education

-teaching the history of so much

-everything is connected

-don't just fight the obvious fights

-taking it a few steps beyond where everybody else is standing

-I did it because it was illegal

-there is a place that we must not let people push us beyond, a line

-connecting with your childhood, those things that were amazing

-what crosses your path

-take the time

-negative impacts- we get tired, learn to pay attention to that

-laugh at yourself

-take care of yourself , do those things that replenish you

-leave a legacy

-write a poem

-be thankful

-nurture

-understanding

-look deep

-natural behaviors

-earth was meant for joy, connect with that joy and you will be forever fed by it.



More about the film

http://www.alicewalkerfilm.com/world-premier/

http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/the-human-cost-of-stuff/film-alice-walker-beauty-in-truth




Alice Walker Official Website
http://alicewalkersgarden.com/