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I don't know whether the bird you are holding is dead or alive, but what I do know is that it is in your hands. It is in your hands.

Toni Morrison
Responsibility, Hands, Bird
Nobel Prize for Literature Lecture, delivered 7 December 1993
I don't know whether the bird you are holding is dead or alive, but what I do know is that it is in your hands. It is in your hands.