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It seems our fate to be incorrect ... and in our incorrectness stand.

Alice Walker

Alice Walker (b. 1944), U.S. author, critic. Originally published in Interviews with Black Writers, ed. John O'Brien (1973). "From an Interview," In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens (1983).

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