I can easily imagine Obama sitting down and talking to any leader – or any person – in the world, with no baggage of past servitude or race supremacy to mar their talks. Alice Walker Read Quote
I met Howard Zinn in 1961, my first year at Spelman College in Atlanta. He was the tall, rangy, good-looking professor that many of the girls at Spelman swooned over. Alice Walker Read Quote
Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also. Alice Walker Read Quote
So many killings of black men in my lifetime. The physical shock is astounding. Alice Walker Read Quote
I’m still living at least five parallel lives, honestly! I wonder about it. I have no idea how that happens. Alice Walker Read Quote
I think many people in my community had very different kinds of mothers: they had mothers who acquiesced in the system of male and white-supremacist domination, and my mother never did. She just could not do it. It just wasn’t in her. Alice Walker Read Quote
I love the women’s movement, and I never thought of it as belonging to any particular segment of the population. Alice Walker Read Quote
I gave my archive to Emory University because there’s a really dear friend who teaches there, Rudolph Byrd, and he’s the editor. Alice Walker Read Quote
