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Quotes by Alice Walker
- The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.
- The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.
- The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.
- The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.
- The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
- 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.
- 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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