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Paule Marshall: Perhaps she was...

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Perhaps she was both child and woman,
darkness and light, past and present,
life and death -- all the opposites
contained and reconciled in her.

Source: In Famous Black Quotations, ed. Janet Cheatham Bell, 1995.
-- Paule Marshall, (Apr 9 1929-2019), US writer, educator; She wrote The Chosen Place, The Timeless People, 1961 and Daughters, 1991.


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