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

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

Category:
power
Read Quote

In my work and in myself I reflect black people, women and men, as I reflect others. One day even the most self-protective ones will look into the mirror I provide and not be afraid. – Alice Walker

Category:
Women
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Money
category

From paying off friends tax bills to rescuing stray dogs and stuffing &pound20 notes into the hands of homeless people, I cant get rid of my money fast enough. – Julie Burchill

Category:
Money

We have profoundly forgotten everywhere that Cash-payment is not the sole relation of human beings. – Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present

Category:
Money

If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals. – Susan B. Anthony

Category:
Money

Hollywood is so fake and people need to realize that people are just people, and you, too, dont need to be born into something or have money or have whatever product someone is hawking on you. – Katy Perry

Category:
Money

Random Quotes

The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art. – George Santayana

Category:
Art

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person. – Andy Rooney

Category:
Dogs

President Obamas view of a free economy is to send your money to his friends. My vision for a free enterprise economy is to return entrepreneurship and genius and creativity to the American people! – Mitt Romney

Category:
Money

John wrote with a very deep love for the human race and a concern for its future. – Yoko Ono

Category:
Future