Shannon

“She did not see why anyone should worry about her soul, even the people she marched with. “When it gives me trouble,” she’d sneer, “I’ll call y’all.”
― Alice Walker, Meridian

“The mysterious inner life that she had imagined gave them a secret joy was simply a full knowledge of the fact that they were dead, living just enough for their children.”
― Alice Walker, Meridian

“there because of her brilliance but only tolerated because it was clear she was one, too, on whom true Ladyhood would never be conferred.”
― Alice Walker, Meridian

“Because I know. Grown-up white men don’t want to pretend to be anything else. Not even for a minute.”
― Alice Walker, Meridian