#walker

People change when shit happens. ↗

— Victoria Scott

#the-collector #victoria-scott #change

I'm poor, black, I may even be ugly; but dear God, I'm here! I'm here! ↗

— Alice Walker

#beautiful #the-color-purple #beauty

Do you know what he told me after lying under a cliff for thirty six hours with two inches of his femur sticking out? He said: 'Queenie, I think I'm going to pass out and before I do, I'm going to give you a piece of advice' - God, I thought he was going to die and knew and was telling me what to do with his book - and he said quite solemnly: 'Queenie, always stick to Bach and the early Italians' - and passed out cold as a mackerel. And by God, it's not bad advice. ↗

— Walker Percy

#death #humor #the-moviegoer #walker-percy #death

I wonder if Blue knows she’s repainting her room.I wonder if he’s asking if she wants a ride to the party tonight.I wonder if he knows what being strangled feels like. ↗

— Victoria Scott

#dante-walker #jealousy #jealousy

I think that’s what Toni Morrison and Alice Walker understand, the secret language of women. That it’s not a secret at all; men just don’t know how to listen. ↗

— Marlon James

#listening #men #men-and-women #secret #toni-morrison

There are only old people here. ↗

— Christie Walker Bos

#goodbye-blues #hello-love #love

Every time there's a revolution, it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution. David Walker wrote a book and Nat Turner did his thing. ↗

— Mike Tyson

#book #comes #david #did #every

I have always been a very keen walker, though, and I often took a camera with me on my walks. ↗

— Fay Godwin

#been #camera #i #keen #me

Attraction is explained as a function of reincarnation: people who knew each other in past lives are helpless in the face of an emotion which has passed, untouched, through bodily death. Who wouldn’t be? ↗

— Brenda Walker

#reading-by-moonlight #death

And Walker was made with a Mexican crew, although it was shot in Nicaragua. ↗

— Alex Cox

#crew #made #mexican #nicaragua #shot