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"These girls riding bareback on their palominos"
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"Complaints can sound like the master's tools—but they're also where you come to learn about how institutions reproduce themselves."
By Chetna Maroo
"Passing through the hallway on their way out, her sisters tipped their heads in the direction of the statue of the goddess Durga."
"Jefferson had helped create his own country. But he wanted black people to leave it. All of that made me think about the idea of a nation—what does it mean to be a nation of people? How do you create one?"
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Ronnie gave her "ohs" the shape of shock, smoke rings, and the after-image of a bullet hole through a beehive.
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"All day I think about what to do with the day."
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"As soon as Farley's collar was unhooked, he took the nearest, steepest slope down into the dell."