Ayanda

“How come it can’t fly no better than a chicken?’ Milkman asked.

Too much tail. All that jewelry weighs it down. Like vanity. Can’t nobody fly with all that [stuff]. Wanna fly, you got to give up the [stuff] that weighs you down.’

The peacock jumped onto the hood of the Buick and once more spread its tail, sending the flashy Buick into oblivion.”
― Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

“The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man. ”
― Toni Morrison