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"The only thing I don't like about school is the beating the children receive. Sometimes we adults don't want to do certain things, and nobody bothers us. Why should we bother the children if sometimes they are not in the mood to learn."

"When God gives you a rash, he also gives you nails to scratch it with."

"When your son dies, you know that that is natural. Death is universal. You know where he has gone. But when you are alive and see your son mad, and you can do nothing about it, it kills the heart. It crushes your entire being, and you are left with nothing but an empty self."

"Her religion told her that she would die and go to the other world, much better than the present one. She would see her ancestors. She would minister to them. Her ancestors had been buried years ago with cooking utensils, and slaves had been sent along to serve them. This was the kind of the end she knew and understood; "

"One mother can bear two children in her womb, but one chi cannot belong to the two children"