My very first lessons in the art of telling stories took place in the kitchen . . . my mother and three or four of her friends. . . told stories. . .with effortless art and technique. They were natural-born storytellers in the oral tradition.
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A person can run for years but sooner or later he has to take a stand in the place which, for better or worse, he calls home, do what he can to change things there.Paule Marshall
Once a great wrong has been done, it never dies. People speak the words of peace, but their hearts do not forgive. Generations perform ceremonies of reconciliation but there is no end.
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Perhaps she was both child and woman,darkness and light, past and present,life and death -- all the oppositescontained and reconciled in her.
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Sometimes a person has to go back, really back -- to have a sense, an understanding of all that's gone to make them -- before they can go forward.
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