Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.

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"Something that is loved is never lost."

- Toni Morrison

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"Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all."

- Toni Morrison

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"Don't ever think I fell for you or fell over you. I didn't fall in love; I rose in it."

- Toni Morrison

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"I remember a very important lesson that my father gave me when I was 12 or 13. He said, ‘You know, today I welded a perfect seam and I signed my name to it.’ And I said, ‘But, Daddy, no one’s going to see it!’ And he said, ‘Yeah, but I know it’s there.’"

- Toni Morrison

Love

"She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind."

- Toni Morrison

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"An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness."

- Elbert Hubbard

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"Loyal customers, they don’t just come back, they don’t simply recommend you—they insist that their friends do business with you."

- Chip Bell

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"You don’t earn loyalty in a day. You earn loyalty day-by-day."

- Jeffrey Gitomer

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"It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery."

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"Where liberty is, there is my country."

- Benjamin Franklin

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