Black White and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting SelfThe Civil Rights movement brought author Alice Walker and lawyer Mel Leventhal together, and in 1969 their daughter, Rebecca, was born. Some saw this unusual copper-colored girl as an outrage or an oddity; others viewed her as a symbol of harmony, a triumph of love over hate. But after her parents divorced, leaving her a lonely only child ferrying between two worlds that only seemed to grow further apart, Rebecca was no longer sure what she represented. In this book, Rebecca Leventhal Walker attempts to define herself as a soul instead of a symbol—and offers a new look at the challenge of personal identity, in a story at once strikingly unique and truly universal. |
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... she leaves itwill be my heart— lazy, slow,decidedly notsmart—that willpulland yearn and twist around likea dogindirt.It willbe my heart that will force my mind to remember her face, the way shefelt lying next to me in the dark, the way she ...
... she leaves itwill be my heart— lazy, slow,decidedly notsmart—that willpulland yearn and twist around likea dogindirt.It willbe my heart that will force my mind to remember her face, the way shefelt lying next to me in the dark, the way she ...
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... she enjoyeda sixmonth stay in jail,and thatonsome days she comes dizzyingly close to checking herself into theasylum.“I need to be confined,” she says, and I knowwhatshe means. Thereis safety infourwalls, in ritualsboileddown intorules ...
... she enjoyeda sixmonth stay in jail,and thatonsome days she comes dizzyingly close to checking herself into theasylum.“I need to be confined,” she says, and I knowwhatshe means. Thereis safety infourwalls, in ritualsboileddown intorules ...
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... 't want to be colored,Idon'twant tobe like you!”inthe film classic ImitationofLife.I'm theone inthe Langston Hughes poem withthewhite daddy and theblack mama who doesn't know where she'll rest her head when she's dead:
... 't want to be colored,Idon'twant tobe like you!”inthe film classic ImitationofLife.I'm theone inthe Langston Hughes poem withthewhite daddy and theblack mama who doesn't know where she'll rest her head when she's dead:
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Autobiography of a Shifting Self Rebecca Walker. doesn't know where she'll rest her head when she's dead: the colored buryin' ground behind the chapel or the whiteman's cemeterybehind gates on the hill. But maybe I'm being melodramatic ...
Autobiography of a Shifting Self Rebecca Walker. doesn't know where she'll rest her head when she's dead: the colored buryin' ground behind the chapel or the whiteman's cemeterybehind gates on the hill. But maybe I'm being melodramatic ...
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... She tells me secretly, late at night from underneath allour extra quilts and afghans, thatshe wants tostay herewith usforever, that she loves Uncle Mel,wants tomarry UncleMel. She says, “Your daddy is agood white man!” and smiles, her ...
... She tells me secretly, late at night from underneath allour extra quilts and afghans, thatshe wants tostay herewith usforever, that she loves Uncle Mel,wants tomarry UncleMel. She says, “Your daddy is agood white man!” and smiles, her ...
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Brooklyn | |
Morphology | |
Atlanta | |
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How Memory Works | |
Larchmont San Francisco | |
Monroe | |
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