"I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer - its dust and lowering skies."
"The function of freedom is to free someone else."
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Source: No Place for Self-Pity, No Room for Fear by Toni Morrison, www.thenation.com. March 23, 2015.
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