# Quote — Alice Walker, In Search of Our Mother’s Gardens

> But please remember, especially in these times of group-think and the right-on chorus, that no person is your friend (or kin) who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow and be perceived as fully blossomed as you were intended.

- Author: [Alice Walker](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alice-walker.md)
- Book: [In Search of Our Mother’s Gardens](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alice-walker/in-search-of-our-mothers-gardens.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alice_Walker#In_Search_of_Our_Mothers'_Gardens:_Womanist_Prose_(1983)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/alice-walker/in-search-of-our-mothers-gardens/but-please-remember