Alice Walker - In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens (1983)

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All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.

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But please remember, especially in these times of group-think and the right-on chorus, that no person is your friend (or kin) who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow and be perceived as fully blossomed as you were intended.

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Curiosity is my natural state and has led me headlong into every worthwhile experience (never mind the others) I have ever had.

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In order to be able to live at all in America I must be unafraid to live anywhere in it, and I must be able to live in the fashion and with whom I choose.

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'Progress' affects few. Only revolution can affect many.

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Ignorance, arrogance, and racism have bloomed as Superior Knowledge in all too many universities.

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And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see... Guided by my heritage of a love of beauty and a respect for strength – in search of my mother's garden, I found my own.

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Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

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The artist is the voice of the people, but she is also The People.

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It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's 'mature' critics often are.

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Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.

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Writing poems is my way of celebrating with the world that I have not committed suicide the evening before.

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The original 'crime' of 'niggers' and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.

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In my opinion and experience, imperialists of all nations and races will tell us anything to keep us fighting. For them.

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People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they were willing to actually remain fools.

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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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Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.

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The good news may be that Nature is phasing out the white man, but the bad news is that's who She thinks we all are.

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No person is your friend (or kin) who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow and be perceived as fully blossomed as you were intended. Or who belittles in any fashion the gifts you labor so to bring into the world.

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