“(a womanist)
3. Loves music. Loves dance. Loves the moon. Loves the Spirit. Loves love and food and roundness. Loves struggle. Loves the Folk. Loves herself. Regardless.”
― In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose
3. Loves music. Loves dance. Loves the moon. Loves the Spirit. Loves love and food and roundness. Loves struggle. Loves the Folk. Loves herself. Regardless.”
― In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose
“If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.”
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“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
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“O Lord, Sula,” she cried, “girl, girl, girlgirlgirl.”
It was a fine cry—loud and long—but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.”
― Sula
It was a fine cry—loud and long—but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.”
― Sula
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