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  1. Alice Walker _ In Search of Our Mothers'

    In that story I gathered up the historical and psychological threads of the life my ancestors lived, and in the writing of it I felt joy and strength and my own continuity. I had that wonderful feeling writers get sometimes, not very often, of being with a great many people, ancient spirits, all very happy to see me consulting and acknowledging them, and eager to let me know, through the joy of their presence, that, indeed, I am not alone.
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  2. Alice Walker _ In Search of Our Mothers'

    This was my first indication of the quality I feel is most characteristic of Zora's work: racial health; a sense of black people as complete, complex, undiminished human beings, a sense that is lacking in so much black writing and literature.
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  3. Alice Walker _ In Search of Our Mothers'

    there was no sympathy for struggle that ended in defeat. Which meant there was no sympathy for struggle itself-only for "winning.
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  4. Alice Walker _ In Search of Our Mothers'

    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?
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  5. Alice Walker _ In Search of Our Mothers'

    Part of what existence means to me is knowing the difference between what I am now and what I was then. It is being capable of looking after myself intellectually as well as financially. It is being able to tell when I am being wronged and by whom. It means being awake to protect myself and the ones I love. It means being a part of the world community, and being alert to which part it is that I have joined, and knowing how to change to another part if that part does not suit me. To know is to exist: to exist is to be involved, to move about, to see the world with my own eyes. This, at least, the Movement has given me.
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  6. Alice Walker _ In Search of Our Mothers'

    When Toni Morrison said she writes the kind of books she wants to read, she was acknowledging the fact that in a society in which "accepted literature" is so often sexist and racist and otherwise irrelevant or offensive to so many lives, she must do the work of two. She must be her own model as well as the artist attending, creating, learning from, realizing the model, which is to say, herself.
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  7. Alice Walker _ In Search of Our Mothers'

    Without money of one's own in a capitalist society, there is no such thing as independence.
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  8. Alice Walker _ In Search of Our Mothers'

    subservience of any kind is death to the spirit.
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  9. Alice Walker _ In Search of Our Mothers'

    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.
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  10. Alice Walker _ In Search of Our Mothers'

    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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