“She was so quiet. So reflective. And she could erase herself, her spirit, with a swiftness that truly startled, when she knew the people around her could not respect it.”

—  Alice Walker

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American author and activist 1944

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“In such a way she had done what her people prized above all else: she had given her respect to those different from herself.”

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Source: Lady of Mazes (2005), Chapter 7 (p. 66).

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