Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions: Second Edition (Owlet Book)
by Gloria Steinem
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Author: Gloria SteinemEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1995-10-15
ISBN: 0805042024
Number of pages: 432
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
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Book Review: Alice Walker Is An Intelligent, Creative Force
Summary: 5 Stars
These are comments on the essay "Alice Walker: Do You Know This Woman? She Knows You" in this book.
What has made Alice Walker such a good writer?
Alice Walker grew up living with suffering first hand. She writes on the topics she understands from personal experience.
She didn't turn her head away from the suffering all around her and she listened carefully to the suffering of her ancestors.
She has lived with chronic disease that constantly reminds her of life's fragility, finiteness, and pain.
She lost sight early on in one eye and is constantly reminded that all her senses are not to be taken for granted.
She grew up with significant facial scars that showed her how the world treats people with unusual appearance, and made her particularly aware of appearances.
She has experienced many loves over her lifetime. She has focused on and brought attention to people who have not traditionally been shown love.
She has done regular work, speaking engagements, and activism activities that bring attention to genuinely controversial and dangerous issues.
She lives and experiences lifestyles that many people still disapprove.
She challenges the major religions and blasphemes regularly without apology, suggesting that helping others is a higher ideal than worshiping a deity.
She suggests there is the potential for redemption in the people commonly expected to be unredeemable.
When she has been criticized or pressured to be silent, she has continued to write and publish, discussing unpleasant and uncomfortable issues.
She has voiced her objections to unjust, unfair, and cruel systems. Her protagonists often do the same.
She believes that well-presented ideas can change the world. And if they can't, it's still better to err on the side of trying.
In the interview that Gloria Steinam conducted with Alice Walker, Ms. Walker said, "I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book. If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for?" I agree.
Art does so many good things. It records the epiphanies, moments of progress, and moments of joy for us to pull out and replay in our times of need. There are so many times when there seems to be slow progress, moves backwards, silence, or numbing indifference. Thank goodness that we can pull out the artworks we love - to add music to ideas, color to darkness, and hope to silence. Beauty, wisdom, & genuinely good feelings.
If you would like to be a good writer like Alice Walker, consider her example, and live a life that would make a worthwhile story to read.
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