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Book: In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose
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  1. Alice Walker _ In Search of Our Mothers'

    {T}here is a point at which even grief feels absurd. And at this point, laughter gushes up to retrieve sanity."
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  2. Alice Walker _ In Search of Our Mothers'

    I believe that the truth of any subject only comes when all sides of the story are put together.
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  3. Alice Walker _ In Search of Our Mothers'

    The real revolution is always concerned with the least glamorous stuff. With raising a reading level from second grade to third. With simplifying history and writing it down {or reciting it} for the old folks. With helping illiterates fill out a food-stamps form - for they must eat, revolution or not."
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  4. Alice Walker _ In Search of Our Mothers'

    What is always needed in the appreciation of art, or life, is the larger perspective. Connections made, or at least attempted, where none existed before, the straining to encompass in one's glance at the varied world the common thread, the unifying theme through immense diversity, a fearlessness of growth, of search, of looking, that enlarges the private and the public world. And yet, in our particular society, it is the narrowed and narrowing view of life that often wins
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  5. Alice Walker _ In Search of Our Mothers'

    We do it because we care. We care that Vincent Van Gogh mutilated his ear. We care that behind a pile of manure in the yard he destroyed his life. We care that Scott Joplin's music lives! We care because we know this: the life we save is our own.
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  6. Alice Walker _ In Search of Our Mothers'

    Writing poems is my way of celebrating with the world that I have not committed suicide the evening before.
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  7. Alice Walker _ In Search of Our Mothers'

    Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.
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  8. Alice Walker _ In Search of Our Mothers'

    I've found, in my own writing, that a little hatred, keenly directed, is a useful thing.
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  9. Alice Walker _ In Search of Our Mothers'

    {a womanist}3. Loves music. Loves dance. Loves the moon. Loves the Spirit. Loves love and food and roundness. Loves struggle. Loves the Folk. Loves herself. Regardless.
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  10. Alice Walker _ In Search of Our Mothers'

    Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be."
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  11. Alice Walker _ In Search of Our Mothers'

    For several years, while I searched for, found, and studied black women writers, I deliberately shut O'Connor out, feeling almost ashamed that she had reached me first. And yet, even when I no longer read her, I missed her, and realized that though the rest of America might not mind, having endured it so long, I would never be satisfied with a segregated literature. I would have to read Zora Hurston and Flannery O'Connor, Nella Larsen and Carson McCullers, Jean Toomer and William Faulkner, before I could begin to feel well read at all."
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