that will hit you between your eyes...
It's from Toni Morrison's book, A Mercy:
A mother, torn by the various forces of her situation, forces a landowner, who had come to do business with her master, to take away her daughter - away from her, believing that she would be saving her daughter, and maybe giving her a chance at life...
Coming from the depths of a mother's heart, are these words for her daughter:
'to be given dominion over another is a hard thing; to wrest dominion over another is a wrong thing; to give dominion of yourself to another is a wicked thing.'
(Read dominion as control)
For, no matter that the body can be flogged, never give up control of your spirit to another....for then you are truly lost....