How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
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Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.Alice Walker
Activism is my rent for living on this planet.
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I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.
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The sight of a Black nun strikes their sentimentality and, as I am unalterably rooted in native ground, they consider me a work of primitive art, housed in a magical color the incarnation of civilized, anti-heathenism, and the fruit of a triumphing idea.
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It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's "mature" critics often are.
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