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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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I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and dont notice it. – Alice Walker

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Dont wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get youve got to make yourself. – Alice Walker

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How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names. – Alice Walker

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