Alice Walker Quotes, Voice Quotes, Black Quotes

I'm pore, I'm black, I may be ugly and can't cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I'm here.

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Grass is hard and lumpy and damp, and full of dreadful black insects.

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I am a product of every other black woman before me who has done or said anything worthwhile. Recognizing that I am part of history is what allows me to soar.

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Today we reject the notion of equality between a regime that belongs to the democratic world - even if it is conservative and disagreeable - and a totalitarian dictatorship, whether its colors are black, red, or green. This is why we will never again say that Chamberlain is no better than Hitler, Roosevelt no better than Stalin, and Nixon no better than Mao Zedong, even if we do condemn Roosevelt for Yalta, Chamberlain for Munich, and Nixon for Watergate.

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Black smoke, the flickering sister of fire.

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When I try to describe myself to God I say, 'Lord, remember me? Black? Female? Six-foot tall? The writer?' And I almost always get God's attention.

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Shakespeare must be a black girl.

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Women are so perverse. Look how they won't wear black when nothing suits them so well!

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I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition.

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If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so. If this world is a vicious trap, so is its accuser, and the pot is calling the kettle black.

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There is not a black America and a white America; a Latino America, an Asian America. There is the United States of America.

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Black churches minister to social needs out of necessity.

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If you destroy a free market you create a black market.

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I want to emphasize the idea of black as intellectuality and conventionality.

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Black women have not historically stood in the pulpit, but that doesn't undermine the fact that they built the churches and maintain the pulpits.

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Always in the black spirituals there's that promise that things are going to be better, by and by.

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PICKANINNY, n. The young of the "Procyanthropos", or "Americanus dominans". It is small, black and charged with political fatalities.

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Skilled in every trick, a worthy heir of his paternal craft, he would make black look like white, and white look black. [Lat., Furtum ingeniosus ad omne, Qui facere assueret, patriae non degener artis, Candida de nigris, et de candentibus atra.]

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I cannot imagine where we would have been without BET. Many like me who operate in black America can only get our balanced story told nationally on BET talk shows.

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Who is your opponent tonight, tonight I am playing against the Black pieces

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