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That anybody white could take your whole self for anything that came to mind. Not just work, kill, or maim you, but dirty you so bad you forgot who yo...more

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You are nothing but wilderness. No constraint. No mind.You shout the word—mind, mind, mind—over and over and then you laugh, saying as I live and brea...more

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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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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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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 throughou...more