Alice Walker Quotes
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It Was A Decade Marked By Death. Violent And Inevitable. Funerals Became Engraved On The Brain, Intensifying The Ephemeral Nature Of Life. For Many In The South It Was A Decade Reminiscent Of Earlier Times, When Oak Trees Sighed Over Their Burdens In The Wind; Spanish Moss Draggled Blood To The Ground; Amen Corners Creaked With Grief; And The Thrill Of Being Able, Once Again, To Endure Unendurable Loss Produced So Profound An Ecstasy In Mourners That They Strutted, Without Noticing Their Feet, Along The Thin Backs Of Benches: Their Piercing Shouts Of Anguish And Joy Never Interrupted By An Inglorious Fall. They Shared Rituals For The Dead To Be Remembered.
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