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Author: Alice Walker
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Alice Walker _ The Color Purple
she say her head feel like its full of little white men with hammers.
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Alice Walker _ The Way Forward is with a
Why should the killers of the world be "the future" and not us?
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Alice Walker _ Meridian
She was never thought of as a pretty girl. People might say she looked interesting, mysterious, older than her years and therefore intriguing, but she was considered approaching beautiful only when she looked sad.
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Alice Walker _ The Color Purple
Shug say, What, too shamefaced to put singing and dancing and fucking together? She laugh. That's the reason they call what us sing the devil's music. Devils love to fuck.
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Alice Walker _ The Color Purple
But I am not the mother of anybody's children, I said, and I am something
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Alice Walker _ The Color Purple
Why do tired people sing?
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Alice Walker _ The Color Purple
he never says anything off the top of his head
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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.
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Alice Walker _ The Color Purple
There's something in all of us that wants a medal for what we have done. That wants to be appreciated.
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Alice Walker _ The Color Purple
You saying God vain? I ast. Naw, she say. Not vain, just wanting to share a good thing. I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. What it do when it pissed off? I ast. Oh, it make something else. People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.
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Alice Walker _ Meridian
She noticed that other girls were falling in love, getting married. It seemed to produce a state of euphoria in them. She became unsure that her own way of living was as pleasant as she thought it was. It seemed to have an aimlessness to it that did not lead anywhere. Day followed day, and the calm level of her pleasures as a single woman remained constant. Certainly she never reached euphoria. And she wanted euphoria to add to the other good feelings she had.
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Alice Walker _ We Are the Ones We Have Been
The three wealthiest people in the world own more than the GDP of forty-eight countries!
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