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“All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate…I choose love.”
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“No, no, sometimes a person feels to be alone."
"If you're alone too much," Persky said, "you think too much."
"Without a life," Rosa answered, "a person lives where they can. If all they got is thoughts, that's where they live."
"You ain't got a life?"
"Thieves took it.”
― The Shawl
"If you're alone too much," Persky said, "you think too much."
"Without a life," Rosa answered, "a person lives where they can. If all they got is thoughts, that's where they live."
"You ain't got a life?"
"Thieves took it.”
― The Shawl
“It seemed to Rosa Lublin that the whole peninsula of Florida was weighted down with regret. Everyone had left behind a real life. Here they had nothing. They were all scarecrows, blown about under the murdering sunball with empty ribcages.”
― The Shawl
― The Shawl
“Most Mistress no more free do what they want than I is or Pork is or ary colored.”
― Ruth's Journey: The Authorized Novel of Mammy from Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind
― Ruth's Journey: The Authorized Novel of Mammy from Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind
“Race prejudice is the devil unchained.”
― The Marrow of Tradition
― The Marrow of Tradition
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