Lynnea

“Mr. _____ ast me how I git her to eat. I say, Nobody living can stand to smell home cured ham without tasting it. If they dead they got a chance. Maybe.”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple

“I had never thought of it like that, and it gave me a shocked feeling, like maybe I had no idea what kind of world I was actually living in,”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

“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.”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple

“but to Yule and Ade it was the most beautiful building ever to claim four walls and a rooftop. This is the mad Midas touch of true love, which transforms everything it touches to gold.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Ten Thousand Doors of January