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Flashcards by Ellie Hope, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Ellie Hope
almost 7 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| 'Denver took her mother's milk right along with the blood of her sister' | Beloved |
| 'You got two feet Sethe, not four' | Motherhood/Family |
| But you was there and even if you too young to memory it, I can tell it to you' | Motherhood/Family |
| 'She cut off my head every night' | Motherhood/Family |
| 'My sister came to help me wait for my daddy' | Motherhood/Family |
| 'I am Beloved and she is mine' | Motherhood/Family |
| 'Loving small and in secret' | Motherhood/Family |
| 'Sethe was trying to make up for the handsaw; Beloved was making her pay for it' | Motherhood/Family |
| 'She considered love a serious disability' | Motherhood/Family |
| 'He is coming into her yard and he is coming for her best thing' | Motherhood/Family |
| 'Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all' | Motherhood/Family |
| 'Paul D had not trembled since 1856 and then for eighty-three days in a row' | Slavery |
| 'Grown men whipped like children; children whipped like adults' | Slavery |
| 'It is hard to make yourself die forever' | Slavery |
| 'Smokey, stubborn fire. They shoot him to shut him up. Have to.' | Slavery |
| 'If a Negro got legs he ought to use them. Sit down too long, somebody will figure out a way to tie them up' | Slavery |
| 'She and Baby Suggs had agreed without saying so that it was unspeakable' | The Past |
| 'A circle and a cross burned right in the skin' | The Past |
| 'A man could risk his own life, but not his brother's' | The Past |
| 'Unspeakable thoughts, unspoken' | The Past |
| 'Ella didn't like the idea of past errors taking possesion of the present' | The Past |
| 'Remembering seemed unwise' | The Past |
| 'Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow' | The Past |
| 'Nothing in the world more dangerous than a white school teacher' | Other |
| 'Anything dead coming back to life hurts' | Other |
| 'His tobacco tin, blown open, spilled contents that floated freely and made him their play and prey' | Other |
| 'A doomsday truce designed by the devil' | Other |
| 'Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another' | Other |
| 'You are your best thing' | Other |
| 'So you protected yourself and loved small' | Other |
| 'There is no bad luck in the world but whitefolks' | Other |
| 'The best thing she was, was her children' | Other |
| 'People who die don't stay in the ground' | Other |
| 'Beloved, she my daughter, she mine' | Other |
| '124 was spiteful' | Other |
| 'There is a loneliness that can be rocked' | Other |
| Other |
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