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Tea Cake naturally feeling like Janie is worth teaching checkers to, humanizing her and respecting the agency she has over herself >>>

"Sometimes God gets familiar wid us womanfolks too and talks His inside business. He told me how surprised He was 'bout y'all turning out so smart after Him makin' yuh different; and how surprised y'all is goin' tuh be if you ever find out you don't know half as much 'bout us as you think you do. It's so easy to make yo' self out God Almighty when you ain't got nothin' tuh strain against but woman and chickens"

"There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sound and sight. Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a gulf of formless feelings untouched by thought" - pg. 24 💫

I feel like everyone in Stoner's life has been put there to test his resilience 🫤

Yea, Edith just basically rage-baited me this whole chapter 😡. All hearts go out yo William Stoner lol

I don't love or hate the character William Stoner, but I'm so invested lol 🧐

Something tells me I'm gonna love this book 👀

"It is not a racial problem. It is a problem of whether or not you're willing to look at your life and be responsible for it, and then begin to change it." 🎯

Sometimes I feel like America has come so far. Other times, I feel we're still so far off. Two things can definitely be true smh.

Toni Morrison is amazing, but this book is breaking my damn heart lol

Wow 😢💔. Crazy how foundational qualities can be subconsciously passed down through the generations. Also, 🖕🏾🖕🏾🖕🏾 Cholly 😡😡😡

Thank you Momma Morrison for breaking my reading slump 🙏🏾🔥

Poor Elwood, so naive 😕