Alice Walker Quote

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.


In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens (1983)


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...

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...

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...

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...