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

Other quotes by Alice Walker

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it. – Alice Walker

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Death
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I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same time, theres a real lightheartedness about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how theyre not the same, ever again. – Alice Walker

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Change
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As long as the Earth can make a spring every year, I can. As long as the Earth can flower and produce nurturing fruit, I can, because Im the Earth. I wont give up until the Earth gives up. – Alice Walker

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I havent got as much money as some folks, but Ive got as much impudence as any of them, and thats the next thing to money. – Josh Billings

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When I left 20th Century-Fox to freelance, my agent believed that getting big money was the way to establish real importance in our industry. – Loretta Young

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Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell. – J. D. Salinger

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