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for her. But when the Whites break into the yard, she can do nothing, but just accept it, pondering color and waiting for death. Before she has been ransomed, she has no ideas about herself. After she gets freedom, she realizes that if the Blacks want to get liberty, they should know their own value, and learn to love themselves. So, in the woods, she appeals her compatriots for loving themselves: Love your hands! Love them. Raise them up and kiss them. Touch others with them, pat them together, stroke them on yours face’ cause they don’t love that either. You got to love it, you! And all your inside parts that they’d just as soon slop for hogs, you got to love them. The dark, dark—love it, love it, and the beat and beating heart, love that too. More than eyes or feet. More than lungs that have yet to draw free air. More than your life-holding womb and your life-giving private parts, hear me now, love your heart. For this is the prize. (Morrison 89) Obviously, loving themselves is the first step that the black begin to find their own identity and grow up. In fact, the black women are never yield to the outside. When Sethe gets to know that the schoolteacher and his nephews are doing research about black slaves and put Sethe’s “human characteristics on the left; her animal ones on the right,” (Morrison 193) She is shocked and swears that she would never allow her child’s characteristics to be put on the animal’s side. So, when her husband Halle and Sixo’s first escape plan fails, she resolutely decides to escape alone and then she does it. In this sense, Sethe’s escape is the demonstration of her strength and self-growth. When she kills her daughter, her intense maternal love is driven to extremes. That means that a slave firstly dominates her own life. Undoubtedly, she uses her courage and strength to challenge the society. When Paul D, her boyfriend, knows the truth of the facts about Sethe’s killing matter, he accuses her “Your love is too thick”. But she answers, “Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.” (Morrison 164) Here, a nationality which has lost their words for a long time find its own sounds and characters from a woman. Morrison chooses the women who are oppressed by race and sex to be the leading actors of her national hero epic, and to find a way out for the nationality. That does not disobey the national history, the actual actualities, and the strength of black women, but embodies her consistent thinking about the black women. When the schoolteacher is coming, Sethe decides to kill her children to exchange their lasting freedom. When she cuts the baby’s throat, she believes that she has the right to exchange her life for freedom. At that moment, Sethe has already begun to find some ways to get liberty and determine her children’s destiny herself. And for Denver, at the end of the Beloved, she finally realizes the only way to protect her mother is “She would have to leave the yard, step off the edge of the world, leave the two behind and go ask somebody for help” (Morrison 243) “Know it, and go on out the yard. Go on.”(Morrison 244) With the encouragement of her passed grandma, Denver finally has the courage to go out the yard, and found her first job, then the second, and the third. When Paul D wants to express his opinion about Beloved, she stops him, “I have my own.”(Morrison 267) Denver goes out of the yard with self-confidence, she knows who she is, and finally she has found her identity. The three