![]() ![]() ![]() I have written much over the years about my journey with my mother. Their content, indeed their very existence, gave meaning and purpose to the art of living. My mother may have carved the path, laden with beauty and strict codes of behavior, but those works by Black women writers established the destination. Morrison’s novel, and then works by other Black women, provided other female voices of authority, in addition to my mother’s and my aunts’, about what my life could become. ![]() In this perfect book, which is a hybrid of memoir and academic text, Farah Jasmine Griffin sums this sentiment up perfectly in a chapter called “Cultivating Beauty.” She is describing the exquisite Toni Morrison novel, Sula, which I re-read frequently because I always discover a new, incredible sentiment or sentence or scene. ![]()
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