It has been proved that the land can exist without the country - and be better for it; it has not been proved that the country can live without the land.
Alice WalkerTag: ecology
Kate thought Yolo was of the bear spirit. The bear, according to ancient people who had known bears well, was of a loyal, generous and young-loving nature. Bear mothers were the most dedicated parents imaginable. The most fierce in protecting their young; but also the most peaceful creatures when left unmolested. People with bear spirit had a certain level feel about them: they often seemed large and strong, even if they weren't particularly. They gave off a vibe that made you want to sit near them. Not to talk, necessarily, but to feel.
Alice WalkerAnd there was no entertainment for them at night. They were too poor to own a television set. But they seemed content. Truman with his sculpting and building the recreation center. Lynne writing poems occasionally, reading them to her friends, then tearing them up.
Alice WalkerTag: mississippi
Even as I hold you, I am letting you go.
Alice WalkerTag: loss goodbye letting-go leaving let-go hold-you miss-you-already
What will people say, you running off to Memphis like you don't have a house to look after?
Shug say, Albert. Try to think like you got some sense. Why any woman give a shit what people think is a mystery to me.
Well, say Grady, trying to bring light. A woman can't git a man if peoples talk.
Shug look at me and us giggle. Then us sure nuff. Then Squeak start to laugh. Then Sofia. All us laugh and laugh.
She sicker than my mama was when she die. But she more evil than my mama and that keep her alive.
Alice WalkerWomen have to summon courage to fulfill dormant dreams.
Alice WalkerIf you're silent for a long time, people just arrive in your mind.
Alice WalkerTag: writing writers people silence mind characters silent
I'm pore, I'm black, I may be ugly and can't cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I'm here.
Alice WalkerWe recall that to the Cherokee, as to other people who have noticed how long it sometimes takes for humans to develop fully, adulthood comes--if it is coming at all--at the age of fifty-two.
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