Meditation helps Alice to remain focused and centered. She also studied Native American practices under her spiritual big brother, Bill Wahpepah. She celebrates the days after Christmas by planting seeds. She defines a womanist as being a Black Feminist. As she defines it, it's a woman who loves other women, sexually or non-sexually and men sexually and non sexually.
Woman is to feminist as lavender is to purple.
You can discover more about her womanist stands in In Search of Our Mothers Gardens . Which is a practice carried on in the Middle East, Asia and Africa. She wrote a fictional book about the subject called Possessing the Secret of Joy . She also made a documentary with her film making friend, Pratibha Parmar, about female genital mutilation called Warrior Marks . Alice wears her hair in dreadlocks.