Alice Walker

(124 votes)   The sight of a Black nun strikes their sentimentality; and, as I am unalterably rooted in native ground, they consider me a work of primitive art, housed in a magical color; the incarnation of civilized, anti-heathenism, and the fruit of a triumphing idea.

Alice Walker
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(103 votes)   It seems our fate to be incorrect (look where we live, for example), and in our incorrectness stand.

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(33 votes)   She say, Celie, tell the truth, have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show. Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. And I think all the other folks did too. They come to church to share God, not find God.

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(19 votes)   People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.

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(18 votes)   For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

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(16 votes)   To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.

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(14 votes)   It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.

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(14 votes)   The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'

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(13 votes)   I try to teach my heart not to want things it can't have.

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(13 votes)   In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.

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(13 votes)   Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.

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(13 votes)   The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.

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(12 votes)   People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don't.

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(11 votes)   The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn't want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass.

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(10 votes)   I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.

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