Toni Morrison
284 citations

True the Black woman did the housework, the drudgery; true, she reared the children, often alone, but she did all of that while occupying a place on the job market, a place her mate could not get or which his pride would not let him accept.And she had nothing to fall back on: not maleness, not whiteness, not ladyhood, not anything. And out of the profound desolation of her reality she may very well have invented herself. ✨ Toni Morrison, Carolyn C. Denard (2008). What Moves at the Margin: Selected Nonfiction, p.24, Univ. Press of Mississippi

176

Truth

11