“Il womanismo sta al femminismo come il viola sta al lavanda.”
Origine: Citato in AA.VV., Il libro del femminismo, traduzione di Martina Dominici, Gribaudo, 2019, p. 208. ISBN 9788858022900
Alice Malsenior Walker è una scrittrice, attivista e poetessa statunitense.
Attivista femminista per i diritti delle donne afroamericane e delle lesbiche, ha scritto saggi e opere di narrativa su tematiche di genere e sul razzismo.
Il romanzo Il colore viola , la sua opera più famosa, ha vinto il premio Pulitzer per la narrativa.
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“Il womanismo sta al femminismo come il viola sta al lavanda.”
Origine: Citato in AA.VV., Il libro del femminismo, traduzione di Martina Dominici, Gribaudo, 2019, p. 208. ISBN 9788858022900
Origine: Citato in Will Tuttle, Cibo per la pace, traduzione di Marta Mariotto, Sonda, Casale Monferrato, 2014, p. 203. ISBN 978-88-7106-742-1
“I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.”
Origine: Revolutionary Petunias
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.”
As quoted in The Best Liberal Quotes Ever : Why the Left is Right (2004) by William P. Martin, p. 173.
“Activism is the rent I pay for living on the planet.”
From the film poster for Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth.
“We know a roofleaf is not Jesus Christ, but in its own humble way, is it not God?”
The Color Purple (1982)
“Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.”
Origine: Hard Times Require Furious Dancing: New Poems
Foreword to The Dreaded Comparison: Animal Slavery and Human Slavery (1996) by Marjorie Spiegel, p. 14 http://books.google.com/books?ei=je4zTPjrBcmTnQfXmMCLBA&ct=result&id=8u_tAAAAMAAJ&dq=dreaded+comparison+%22exist+for+their+own%22&q=%22exist+for+their+own%22.
“Everything want to be loved. Us sing and dance and holler, just trying to be loved.”
Origine: The Color Purple
“Time moves slowly, but passes quickly.”
Origine: The Color Purple
“Oh, Celie, unbelief is a terrible thing. And so is the hurt we cause others unknowingly.”
Origine: The Color Purple