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  1. Toni Morrison _ Beloved

    Down came the dry flakes, fat enough and heavy enough to crash like nickels on stone. It always surprised him, how quiet it was. Not like rain, but like a secret.
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  2. Toni Morrison _ Beloved

    Everybody knew what she was called, but nobody anywhere knew her name. Disremembered and unaccounted for, she cannot be lost because no one is looking for her, and even if they were, how can they call her if they don't know her name?
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  3. Toni Morrison _ Beloved

    Mister was allowed to be and stay what he was. But I wasn't allowed to be and stay what I was {...} School teacher changed me. I was something else and that something else was less than a chicken sitting in the sun on a tub. {Paul D.}
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  4. Toni Morrison _ Beloved

    In trying to make the slave experience intimate, I hoped the sense of things being both under control and out of control would be persuasive throughout; that the order and quietitude of every day life would be violently disrupted by the chaos of the needy dead; that the herculean effort to forget would be threatened by memory desperate to stay alive. To render enslavement as a personal experience, language must first get out of the way.
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  5. Toni Morrison _ Beloved

    Risky, thought Paul D, very risky. For a used-to-be-slave woman to love anything that much was dangerous, especially if it was her children she had settled on to love. The best thing, he knew, was to love just a little bit; everything, just a little bit, so when they brok its back, or shoved it in a croaker sack, well, maybe you'd have a little love left over for the next one.
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  6. Toni Morrison _ Beloved

    Well, feel this, why don't you? Feel how it feels to have a bed to sleep in and somebody there not worrying you to death about what you got to do each day to deserve it. Feel how that feels. And if that don't get it, feel how it feels to be a colored woman roaming the roads with anything God made liable to jump on you. Feel that.
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  7. Toni Morrison _ Beloved

    Bit by bit, at 124 and in the Clearing, along with others, she had claimed herself. Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another."
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  8. Toni Morrison _ Beloved

    I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved.
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  9. Toni Morrison _ Beloved

    Nothing could be counted on in a world where even when you were a solution you were a problem.
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  10. Toni Morrison _ Beloved

    It's not about choosing somebody over her. It's about making space for somebody along with her.
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  11. Toni Morrison _ Beloved

    Beloved, she my daughter. She mine. See. She come back to me of her own free will and I don't have to explain a thing.
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  12. Toni Morrison _ Beloved

    Come see," I was thinking. "Be the last thing you behold,
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