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Quote by Alice Walker
To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker

To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people. – Alice Walker

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Im not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself – then they get to say See, you did it yourself. – Alice Walker

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My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my fathers head. It taught me about women defending themselves and not collapsing in a heap. – Alice Walker

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