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Toni Morrison: Bit by bit...

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Bit by bit . . . she had claimed herself. Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.

Source: Of Sethe, the heroine, 28 days after she had escaped from slavery; Beloved, part 1, 1987.
-- Toni Morrison, (Feb 18 1931-2019), US novelist; She won the Pulitzer Prize for Beloved; won Nobel Prize for Literature, 1993.


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