Alice Walker Quotes About Grandmothers

Quotes about: Grandmothers

• We will be ourselves and free, or die in the attempt. Harriet Tubman was not our great-grandmother for nothing.

  Alice Walker

  Happiness, Success, Perseverance

  Alice Walker (2013). “The Alice Walker Collection: Fiction”, p.804, Hachette UK

• And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.

  Alice Walker

  Family, Mother, Flower

  Alice Walker, Barbara Christian (1994). “Everyday Use”, p.47, Rutgers University Press

• Our mothers and grandmothers ... moving to music not yet written.

  Alice Walker

  Mother, Moving, Grandma

• My great-great-great-grandmother walked as a slave from Virginia to Eatonton, Georgia... It is in memory of this walk that I chose to keep and to embrace my "maiden" name, Walker.

  Alice Walker

  Memories, Grandmother, Virginia

  Alice Walker (2013). “The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction”, p.65, Hachette UK

• What did it mean for a black woman to be an artist in our grandmothers' time? In our great-grandmothers' day? It is an answer cruel enough to stop the blood.

  Alice Walker

  Mean, Grandmother, Artist

  Alice Walker, Barbara Christian (1994). “Everyday Use”, p.41, Rutgers University Press

• I think mothers and daughters are meant to give birth to each other, over and over; that is why our challenges to each other are so fierce; that is why, when love and trust have not been too badly blemished or destroyed, the teaching and learning one from the other is so indelible and bittersweet. We daughters must risk losing the only love we instinctively feel we can't live without in order to be who we are, and I am convinced this sends a message to our mothers to break their own chains, though they may be anchored in prehistory and attached to their own great grandmothers' hearts.

  Alice Walker

  Daughter, Mother, Teaching

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