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   Moore, Geneva Cobb, and Andrew Billingsley. Maternal Metaphors of Power in African American Women's Literature: From Phillis Wheatley to Toni Morrison. University of South Carolina Press, 2017, OCLC 974947406.
   
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   "Once (1968)". Alice Walker The Official Website for the American Novelist & Poet. Retrieved March 12, 2017.