The only reason you want to go to heaven -- Anything we love can be saved -- "You have all seen" -- Anything we love can be saved : the resurrection of Zora Neale Hurston and her work -- The sound of our own culture -- How long shall they torture our mothers? : the trials of Winnie Mandela -- Songs, flowers, and swords -- What can I give my daughters, who are brave -- Home -- Sunniness and shade : twenty-five years with the woman who made me a mother -- Audre's voice -- Dreads -- My face to the light : thoughts about Christmas -- What can I give my daughters, who are brave -- What that day was like for me : the Million Man March -- Turquoise and coral -- Turquoise and coral : the writing of The temple of my familiar -- Looking for Jung : writing Possessing the secret of joy -- Frida, the perfect familiar -- The growth of understanding -- Giving the party -- Treasure -- Heaven belongs to you : Warrior marks as a liberation film -- Saving the self -- Getting as black as my daddy : thoughts on the unhelpful aspects of destructive criticism -- this side of glory : The autobiography of David Hilliard and the story of the Black Panther Party, by David Hilliard and Lewis Cole -- Disinformation advertising -- Letter to the International Indian Treaty Council -- Letter to People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals -- Follow me home -- Letter to the editor of Essence -- African cinema -- I am Salman Rushdie -- this that I offer you -- Hugging Fidel -- Becoming what we're called -- The story of why I am here, or A woman connects oppressions -- Hugging Fidel -- Letter to President Clinton -- My mother's blue bowl.

In Anything We Love Can Be Saved, Alice Walker writes about her life as an activist, in a book rich in the belief that the world is saveable, if only we will act. Speaking from her heart on a wide range of topics--religion and the spirit, feminism and race, families and identity, politics and social change--Walker begins with a moving autobiographical essay in which she describes her own spiritual growth and roots in activism. She goes on to explore many important private and public issues: being a daughter and raising one, dreadlocks, banned books, civil rights, and gender communication. She writes about Zora Neale Hurston and Salman Rushdie and offers advice to Bill Clinton. Here are a wise woman's thoughts as she interacts with the world today, and an important portrait of an activist writer's life. - Back cover.