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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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How soon country people forget. When they fall in love with a city it is forever, and it is like forever. As though there never was a time when they d...more

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We were two throats and one eye and we had no price.

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She is dead now, so I can say that she laughed like us, played like us and her adult life turned out okay- so I heard. But then when we were all twelv...more

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You think because he doesn't love you that you are worthless. You think that because he doesn't want you anymore that he is right -- that his judgemen...more

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I can't tell you why I was in love with her. People didn't require that much as they do now. Folks were expected to be civilized to one another, hones...more

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She knew Paul D was adding something to her life—something she wanted to count on but was scared to... His waiting eyes and awful human power. The min...more

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

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And in all those escapes he could not help being astonished by the beauty of this land that was not his. He his in its breast, fingered its earth for ...more

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She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.

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Sethe, he says, "me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow."He leans over and takes her hand. With the other he to...more

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if they put an iron circle around your neck I will bite it away

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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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Jump, if you want to, ‘cause I’ll catch you, girl. I’ll catch you “fore you fall. Go as far inside as you need to, I’ll hold your ankles. Make sure yo...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.