You are free; there are no slaves now. Be a woman and a wife. Don't be afraid. I forgive the wrong you did, and I ask you to forgive me for the thought that wronged you.

Sometimes in her wanderings she had doubted her own identity;

The father of lies himself might, by diligent study of the genre, learn something about his own trade.

Those whom God hath joined together, let no man put asunder.

A white man's negro is a free negro if he can escape to a free country, or can buy himself.

But she was his wife, the wife of his youth, and he could no more disown her than he could disown his own identity.

It's been a long time, but I could 'a' known you amongst a thousand.

What rankled most in my memory was the unmerited humiliation of my race.

Perhaps she had dreamed it, or had been half-witted.

He'll understand that he isn't required to poison his own life in order to make somebody else happy.

The Wife of His Youth