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  1. Sue Monk Kidd _ The Invention of Wings

    If you don't know where you're going, you should know where you came from.
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  2. Sue Monk Kidd _ The Invention of Wings

    I saw then what I hadn't seen before, that I was very good at despising slavery in the abstract, in the removed and anonymous masses, but in the concrete, intimate flesh of the girl beside me, I'd lost the ability to be repulsed by it. I'd grown comfortable with the particulars of evil. There's a frightful muteness that dwells at the center of all unspeakable things, and I had found my way into it.
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  3. Sue Monk Kidd _ The Invention of Wings

    When I was being forgiving, I said that my mother was simply exhausted. I suspected, though, she was simply mean.
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  4. Sue Monk Kidd _ The Invention of Wings

    Professor Julius Lester, which I kept propped on my desk: "History is not just facts and events. History is also a pain in the heart and we repeat history until we are able to make another's pain in the heart our own.
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  5. Sue Monk Kidd _ The Invention of Wings

    If everyone was so keen to Christianize the slaves, why weren't they taught to read the Bible for themselves?
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  6. Sue Monk Kidd _ The Invention of Wings

    Her forbidden bath all those months ago still hung leaden between us, though Handful didn't seem the least bit ashamed by my discovery of it. Rather the opposite, she was like someone who'd risen to her full measure.
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  7. Sue Monk Kidd _ The Invention of Wings

    She loved me and pitied me. And I loved her and used her. It never was a simple thing. That day, our hearts were pure as they ever would get.
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  8. Sue Monk Kidd _ The Invention of Wings

    Mauma came down with a limp. When she was in her room or in the kitchen house for meals, she didn't have any trouble, but the minute she stepped in the yard, she dragged her leg like it was a dead log."
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  9. Sue Monk Kidd _ The Invention of Wings

    Which end of the needle are you going to be- the side held by string or the point that pierces the cloth?
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  10. Sue Monk Kidd _ The Invention of Wings

    Strangest of all, it was the first time thoughts of equality had entered my head, and I could only attribute it to God, with whom I'd lately taken up and who was proving to be more insurrectionary than law-abiding.O
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  11. Sue Monk Kidd _ The Invention of Wings

    I'd been wandering about in the enchantments of romance, afflicted with the worst female curse on earth, the need to mold myself to expectations.O
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  12. Sue Monk Kidd _ The Invention of Wings

    afflicted with the worst female curse on earth, the need to mold myself to expectations.
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