"(1991)

Anything We Love Can be Saved: A Writer's Activism, (Walker 1997) is a collection of 33 speeches, letters and previously published pieces with the consistent theme of the political merging into the personal in her life. Michael Anderson, reviewing this book and mentioning a piece that Walker said "remains unwritten," states that "Ms. Walker's admirers can rejoice that her silence did not extend to book length." Pettis remarks that the essays in this collection suggest the far boundaries of Walker's activities. Marveling at her broad range of activism, she states "What this volume communicates with equal success is that Walker's intellectual and personal activism exceeds public demonstrations." Powells.com reviews her book thus: 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," and that she was "speaking from her heart on a wide...
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