Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be. ✨ Alice Walker, Barba…

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Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be. ✨ Alice Walker, Barbara Christian (1994). Everyday Use, p.127, Rutgers University Press
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Man corrupt everything, say Shug. He on your box of grits, in your head, and all over the radio. He try to make you think he everywhere. Soon as you think he everywhere, you think he God. But he ain' … ▶
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