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We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For

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  • Alice Walker
    In Alice Walker: Later work and controversies

    …Trade Center and Pentagon (2001), We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness (2006), and The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm’s Way (2013). Walker also wrote juvenile fiction and critical essays…

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