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1 " Esmenda Jenkins Dube the first was all about fairand saw her house as an oasis in the middleof corruption, saw herself as a missionaryconverting stupidity into reason. She thoughtthat was much more useful than a miracle. "
― Thylias Moss , Slave Moth: A Narrative in Verse
2 " the truth is not supposed to free you from the truth, just from everything else "
3 " She was so pale she could have been moonlight. "
4 " but the attitude reading and writing gives you "
5 " She also said that Esmenda Jenkins Dubewould have wanted a northern life,as far north as north can be, limits of northwhere it was so cold nothing there understood hellfire,and the mountains were white, like full-hipped womensleeping undisturbed, women of the cold cloudsbreathing out more cold clouds that departed their mouthswhen they whispered heaven in their northern dreams. "
6 " Scared of words? I don't see why anybody ought to fear words. Words are tools;you have to know how to use them to get donethe job you want to get done. Can't do the workif you're scared of the work. "
