Status Updates From Paradise

'... for ten generations they had believed the division they fought to close was free against slave and rich against poor. Usually, but not always, white against black. Now they saw a new separation: light-skinned against black.'

'The women of Ruby did not powder their faces and they wore no harlot's perfume.'

"of course it's good. It's just not enough."

There is something so sincere in the emotions Toni Morrison writes within her characters. The raw and unfiltered inner monologues are just incredible.

'They did everything but slap each other, and finally they did that.'

'They shoot the white girl first.'

i feel stupid