Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me. – Alice Walker
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
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
The infinite faith I have in peoples ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior. – Alice Walker