• The sight of a Black nun strikes their sentimentality; and, as I am unalterably rooted in native ground, they consider me a work of primitive art, housed in a magical color; the incarnation of civilized, anti-heathenism, and the fruit of a triumphing idea.

  Alice Walker
  American Author, Critic 1944-
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. anti-heathenism
2. unalterably
3. incarnation
4. triumphing
5. ground
6. housed

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The sight of a Black nun strikes their sentimentality; and, as I am unalterably rooted in native ground, they consider me a work of primitive art, housed in a magical color; the incarnation of civilized, anti-heathenism, and the fruit of a triumphing idea. by : Alice Walker

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