Author: Bernice Reagon

Cited by

• Alice Walker (1)
  • IN: In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens (1983) Non-Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I come out of a tradition where those things are valued; where you talk about a woman with big legs and big hips and black skin. I come out of a black community where it was all right to have hips and to be heavy. You didn't feel that people didn't like you. The values that [imply] you must be skinny come from another culture... Those are not the values that I was given by the women who served as my models. I refuse to be judged by the values of another culture. I am a black woman, and I will stand as best I can in that imagery.
    FROM: Black Women and Liberation Movements, (1983), Speech, US