No song or poem will bear my mother's name. Yet so many of the stories…

Alice Walker
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No song or poem will bear my mother's name. Yet so many of the stories that I write, that we all write, are my mother's stories. ✨ Alice Walker, Barbara Christian (1994). Everyday Use, p.47, Rutgers University Press
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No song or poem will bear my mother's name. Yet so many of the stories that I write, that we all write, are my mother's stories. ✨ Alice Walker, Barbara Christian (1994). Everyday Use, p.47, Rutgers University Press

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