Quote by Alice Walker
My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smash

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

Other quotes by Alice Walker

Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom. – Alice Walker

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Family
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Im sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power. – Alice Walker

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power
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The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or ones people that has not previously been taken into account. – Alice Walker

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Im so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black students behave as though they can only read blacks, or white students behave as though they can only identify with a white writer. – Bell Hooks

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