Status Updates From Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo

“The South in her, the land and salt-winds, moved her through Charleston's streets as if she were a mobile sapling, with the gait of a well-loved colored woman whose lover was the horizon in any direction.”

This is actually a Reread. Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo is my BEST BOOK OF ALL TIME. I reread it every June close to my BD June 28th. It's drizzling and overcast ☁️ in my town today. I pulled this off the shelf. Shange heals parts of me that red wine and chocolate can't.