There was no sign indicating that a school was near, and children who had to cross the highway did so at a run. A boy had been killed trying to get across the road, and the state of georgia had put up a white wooden cross as a "death" marker for motorists, but had not thought to put up a warning sign.

Alice Walker, The Third Life of Grange Copeland (1970)

Each day must be spent, in a sense, apart from any other; on each day there would be sun and cheerfulness or rain and sorrow or quiet contemplation of life. Each day must be past, present and future, with dancing and wine-making and drinking and as few regrets as possible. Her future must be the day she lived in.

Alice Walker, The Third Life of Grange Copeland (1970)

[White folks] is the reason fences was invented. I mean, take before they come here with all they bibles, do you think the Injuns had done hogged propity from one another? No ma'am, they hadn't. They didn't mind letting folks use the grass and the good earth like the lawd intended it should be. Those people over there, you give 'em a chance, they try to take our land, never mind it belong to us. They been that was since hist'ry.

Grange zu Ruth, in: Alice Walker, The Third Life of Grange Copeland (1970)

Each man would have to free himself, he thought, and the best way he could.

Grange Copeland, in: Alice Walker, The Third Life of Grange Copeland (1970)

Two-heading was dying out, he lamented. Folks what can look at things in more than one way is done got rare.

Grange Copeland, in: Alice Walker, The Third Life of Grange Copeland (1970)

Resistance is the secret of joy.

Alice Walker, Possessing the Secret of Joy (1992)