More From Alice Walker
- "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."
- "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."
- "How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names."
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- "With the help of a friend I got father into a wagon, when the crowd had gone. I held his head in my lap during the ride home. I believed he was mortally wounded. He had been stabbed down through the kidneys, leaving an ugly wound."― Buffalo Bill
- "How many deaf people do you know in real life? Unless they live in a cave, or are 14, which seems to be true for most people in this business, what could I possibly tell them that they don’t already know?"― Marlee Matlin
- "Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down."― Russell Baker