Walker

Famous quotes containing the word walker:

    Old Molly Means was a hag and a witch;
    Chile of the devil, the dark, and sitch.
    —Margaret Abigail Walker (b. 1915)

    For my people lending their strength to the years: to the gone
    years and the now years and the maybe years, washing ironing cooking scrubbing sewing mending hoeing plowing digging planting pruning patching dragging along never gaining never reaping never knowing and never understanding;
    —Margaret Abigail Walker (b. 1915)

    To me, the black black woman is our essential mother—the blacker she is the more us she is—and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.
    —Alice Walker (b. 1944)