There was in Meridian's chest a breaking as if a tight string binding her lungs had given way, allowing her to breathe freely. For she understood, finally, that the respect she owed her life was to continue, against whatever obstacles, to live it, and not to give up any particle of it without a fight to the death, preferably not her own.


Meridian (1976). Camara

Alice Walker Quotes

There was in Meridian's chest a breaking as if a tight string binding her lungs had given way, allowing her to breathe freely. For she understood,...

There was in Meridian's chest a breaking as if a tight string binding her lungs had given way, allowing her to breathe freely. For she understood,...

There was in Meridian's chest a breaking as if a tight string binding her lungs had given way, allowing her to breathe freely. For she understood,...

There was in Meridian's chest a breaking as if a tight string binding her lungs had given way, allowing her to breathe freely. For she understood,...