Alice Walker, "Beyond the Peacock: The Reconstruction of Flannery O'Connor," from In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose (1983)
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She was for me the first great modern writer from the South, and was, in any case, the only one I had read who wrote such sly, demythifying sentences about white women as: "The woman would be more or less pretty-yellow hair, fat ankles, muddy-colored eyes.
— Alice Walker on Flannery O'Connor
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About Alice Walker
Alice Malsenior Walker (born 9 February 1944) is an American author whose novel, The Color Purple, won both the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award.
About Alice Walker
Alice Malsenior Walker (born 9 February 1944) is an American author whose novel, The Color Purple, won both the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award.
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