Alice Walker endorses Barack Obama « The Brown Sugar Pages
Alice Walker endorses Barack Obama « The Brown Sugar Pages
I’ve recently spotted a few articles re: Walker’s support of Obama. An excerpt of Walker’s views:
We have come a long way, Sisters, and we are up to the challenges of our time. One of which is to build alliances based not on race, ethnicity, color, nationality, sexual preference or gender, but on Truth. Celebrate our journey. Enjoy the miracle we are witnessing. Do not stress over its outcome. Even if Obama becomes president, our country is in such ruin it may well be beyond his power to lead us toward rehabilitation. If he is elected however, we must, individually and collectively, as citizens of the planet, insist on helping him do the best job that can be done; more, we must insist that he demand this of us. It is a blessing that our mothers taught us not to fear hard work. Know, as the Hopi elders declare: The river has its destination. And remember, as poet June Jordan and Sweet Honey in the Rock never tired of telling us: We are the ones we have been waiting for.
*I am reading Walker’s Color Purple for the 1st time - yeah, I know. One of my best friends declares that it is the best book of all time. It is quite a page-turner. I’ll probably be finished by the end of the week, if I can just focus.
Interesting quote from Walker: The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn’t want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass. She just has a way with words, doesn’t she?
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