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Everywhere, everywhere, children are the scorned people of the earth.

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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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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.

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

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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 puzzled her and she was too ashamed of Him to say so.

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The best thing she was, was her children.

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In time the whole family perked up like Sesame Street puppets, hoping that cheer, if worked at hard enough, could sugar the living and quiet the dead.

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Grownups don't pay it much attention because they can't imagine anything more majestic to a child than their own selves and so confused dependance for...more

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Let me tell you about love, that silly word you believe is about whether you like somebody or whether somebody likes you or whether you can put up wit...more

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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.

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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