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I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, ...more

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Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.

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You your own best thing, Sethe. You are.

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Paul D did not answer because she didn't expect or want him to, but he did know what she meant. Listening to the doves in Alfred, Georgia, and having ...more

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God take what He would," she said. And He did, and He did, and He did and then gave her Halle who gave her freedom when it didn't mean a thing.

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It's a bad word, 'belong.' Especially when you put it with somebody you love ... You can't own a human being.

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I'm me," she whispered. "Me"Nel didn't know quite what she meant, but on the other hand she knew exactly what she meant."I'm me. I'm not their daughte...more