Word: walkerism
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Pulitzer Prize winning author Alice M. Walker urged fathers to support their daughters' quest to take sexual control of their bodies before a crowd of about 900 people last night at Sanders Theatre...
During the speech, Walker read excerpts from her latest novel titled By the Light of My Father's Smile. The speech was the ninth stop on a book-signing tour for the novel...
...Kansas City, Mo., Joe Walker's 73-yard puntreturn for a TD with 7:29 left broke a 17-17 game,but the Cowboys (2-2, 11 Big 12) nearly forced...
...studious child from reading books for leisure, viewing the activity as irrelevant to the realities of a poor, illegitimate black girl. But while under her grandma's care, Winfrey spent most of her time at the library and curled up at home reading such slave books as Jubilee, Margaret Walker's 1966 novel about a black woman during the antebellum, Civil War and Reconstruction years, and God's Trombones, the 1927 collection of folk sermons in verse by James Weldon Johnson. "For me," she says, "getting my library card was like getting American citizenship...
...pages into her new novel, Walker stages a highly illustrative scene of lesbian sex. Is it fiction or is it gynecology? A moot question when confronting an author whose continuing crossover success depends on reaching an expanding audience. Walker flits gnomically through space and time to tell the story of an American family and its transformation from a repressed patriarchal unit to a spiritual sorority of free radicals. Fans of the well-focused The Color Purple may not appreciate Walker's looser style or such unintended crack-up lines as "...in the branches of the nearest tree lives the first...