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“I've found, in my own writing, that a little hatred, keenly directed, is a useful thing.”
― Alice Walker, In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose

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“We are a people. A people do not throw their geniuses away. And if they are thrown away, it is our duty as artists and as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children, and, if necessary, bone by bone.”
― Alice Walker, In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Prose

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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.”
― Alice Walker, In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Prose

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“Without money of one’s own in a capitalist society, there is no such thing as independence.”
― Alice Walker, In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Prose

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“Then she added thoughtfully, “And that old woman that turned me off so short got down so bad in the end that she was walking on two sticks.” And I knew she was thinking, though she never said it: Here I am today, my eight children healthy and grown and three of them in college and me with hardly a sick day for years. Ain’t Jesus wonderful?”
― Alice Walker, In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Prose

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