"Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender."
"There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through any spiritual or moral or physical devastation."
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Source: Possessing the Secret of Joy epigraph (1992) See Ricciardi 1; AliceWalker 9
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