"I’m sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power."
― Alice Walker
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Power
― Alice Walker
More From Alice Walker
- "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."
- "I’m not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself – then they get to say ‘See, you did it yourself.’"