Sam Blaw’s Reviews > Their Eyes Were Watching God > Status Update

“Mrs. Turner, like all other believers had built an altar to the unattainable—Caucasian characteristics for all. Her god would smite her, would hurl her from pinnacles and lose her in deserts, but she would not forsake his altars. Behind her crude words was a belief that somehow she and others through worship could attain her paradise—a heaven of straighthaired, thin-lipped, high-nose boned white seraphs.”
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ok once I got used to the dialogue it got easier

also yet another classic novel where almost if not all the men suck and ykw hell yeah it's just like real life (THAT'S A JOKE)

I understand the significance of the way the dialogue was written and it's a really interesting stylistic choice but it's also making my brain hurt