For black people-including my parents-had learned a
long time ago
that to stay willingly in a beloved but brutal
place is to risk losing the love and being forced to
acknowledge only the brutality.
-“Choice,"
Alice Walker
In this expert walker uses_
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the concept of choice to highlight the difficult decision that black individuals faced in deciding whether to remain in a place where they experienced both love and brutality. She suggests that staying in such a place requires a willingness to accept the brutality and potentially lose the love that once existed.
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