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Narrator (The People Could Fly) Quotes

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“They say the people could fly. Say that long ago in Africa, some of the people knew magic.”
Virginia Hamilton
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The People Could Fly
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“The slaves who could not fly told about the people who could fly to their children. When they were free.”
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“And they flew like blackbirds over the fields. Black, shiny wings flappin against the blue up there.”
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“Then, many of the people were captured for Slavery. The ones that could fly shed their wings.”
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“They couldn’t take their wings across the water on the slave ships. Too crowded, don’t you know.”
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“The people who could fly kept their power, although they shed their wings. They kept their secret magic in the land of slavery.”
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“There was a great outcryin. The bent back straightened up. Old and young who were called slaves and could fly joined hands.”
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“The slaves labored in the fields from sunup to sundown. The owner of the slaves callin himself their Master.”

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