“There is a tree, by day,
That, at night,
Has a shadow,
A hand huge and black,
With fingers long and black.”
Angelina Weld Grimké, Tenebris
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To discipline something, in the proper sense of the word, does not mean to repress it, but to train it–to encourage it to grow, and act, and be fruitful, whether it is a peach tree or a human mind. “