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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 neither the right nor the permission to enjoy it because in that place mist, doves, sunlight, copper dirt, moon - everything belonged to the men who had the guns. Little men, some of them, big men too, each one of whom he could snap like a twig if he wanted to. Men who knew that their manhood lay in their guns and were not even embarrassed by the knowledge that without fox would laugh at them. And these "men" who made even vixen laugh could, if you let them, stop you from hearing doves or loving moonlight. So you protected yourself and loved small. Picked the tiniest stars out of the sky to own; lay down with head twisted in order to see the loved one over the rim of the trench before you slept. Stole shy glances at her between the trees at chain-up. Glass blades, salamanders, spiders, woodpeckers, beetles, a kingdom of ants. Anything bigger wouldn't do. A woman, a child, a brother - a big love like that would split you wide open in Alfred, Georgia. He knew exactly what she meant: to get to a place where you could love anything you chose - not to need permission for desire - well now, THAT was freedom.


Toni Morrison


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In 1993 Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. In May 2006 The New York Times Book Review named Beloved the best American novel publiToni Morrisond in the previous twenty-five years. I have no idea what his real instincts are in terms of race.

Toni Morrison (born Chloe Ardelia Wofford; February 18 1931) is an American novelist editor and professor. She won the Nobel Prize in 1993 and the Pulitzer Prize in 1988 for Beloved. She also was commissioned to write the libretto for a new opera Margaret Garner first performed in 2005.

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