Quote by Alice Walker
The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery

The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didnt want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass. – Alice Walker

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As an elder of the Americas and of the rest of the planet, it is my responsibility to care for and protect, to the best of my ability, the young. – Alice Walker

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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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