I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America's really large shadow and that's not all that bad.
Alice WalkerThe Olinka girls do not believe girls should be educated. When I asked a mother why she thought this, she said: A girl is nothing to herself; only to her husband can she become something. What can she become? I asked. Why, she said, the mother of his children. But I am not the mother of anybody's children, I said, and I am something.
Alice WalkerPoetry, I have discovered, is always unexpected and always as faithful and honest as dreams.
Alice Walker