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“It was important to name this house, but not the way "Sweet Home" or other plantations were named. There would be no adjectives suggesting coziness or grandeur or the laying claim to an instant, aristocratic past. Only numbers here to identify the house while simultaneously separating it from a street or city—marking its difference from the houses of other blacks in the neighborhood; allowing it a hint of the superiority, the pride, former slaves would take in having an address of their own. Yet a house that has, literally, a personality—which we call "haunted" when that personality is blatant.”

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Book:Beloved
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“No doubt about it, society was small. Most human beings existed on the outer fringes of society. In the seventeenth century, for example, at least twenty percent of the merchandise on every slave ship died. By that I mean the dark-skinned people who were being transported for sale, to Virginia, say. And that didn't get anyone upset or make headlines in the Virginia papers or make anyone go out and call for the ship captain to be hanged. But if a plantation owner went crazy and killed his neighbor and then went galloping back home, dismounted, and promptly killed his wife, two deaths in total, Virginia society spent the next six months in fear, and the legend of the murderer on horseback might linger for generations.”

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Book:2666
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“Every state subject in Jammu and Kashmir should plant a tree on behalf of all the people. Plant a tree in the name of your little children and tell them that this tree is yours, it is your friend. You should water it a little every day. When this tree grows as your child grows, you will all start considering it as a member of your family. When you love it, talk to it, it will take care of you. That tree will give you fruit, give you shade. It will gather beautiful birds for you. It will make the environment around you beautiful. It will give you clean fresh air. It will increase your happiness. And you will be proud of this plant in your heart to your friends.”

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Author:Sheikh Gulzar ([email protected])
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“We all slip somewhere near in space, but almost never cross paths. It is a beautiful, well-groomed woman standing at the counter and selling jewellery to you. It is a girl running a flower stall. It is your neighbour who greets you daily in the lift. It is a woman who works with you in an office. It is your French teacher. It is an Instagram girl who moved to live by the sea. It is the girl who sat next to you in the underground. It is a woman who just walked past you on the street. It is a relative with whom you haven't been speaking for ten years. These infertile women are among us. This woman is me.”

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Book:Not Pregnant
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