Sula (1973) (edit title/settings)

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• Sula Peace: main character
• Nel Wright: Sula's best friend
• Eva Peace: Sula's grandmother.
• Hannah: Sula's mother
• Shadrack: Add a description of this character.
• Mamma
• Helene Wright
• Nellie
• Mrs. Jackson
• Jude
• Dessie
• Carpenter
• Edna Finch

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• “An artist without an art form is a dangerous being.”

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• Because each had discovered years before that they were neither white nor male, and that all freedom and triumph was forbidden to them, they had set about creating something else to be.

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• “I don’t want to make somebody else. I want to make myself.”

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• The first experience taught her there was no other that you could count on; the second that there was no self to count on either. She had no center, no speck around which to grow.

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• “Yes. But my lonely is mine. Now your lonely is somebody else’s. Made by somebody else and handed to you. Ain’t that something? A secondhand lonely.”

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• Any enthusiasms that little Nel showed were calmed by the mother until she drove her daughter’s imagination underground.

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• So he had said “always,” so she would not have to be afraid of the change—the falling away of skin, the drip and slide of blood, and the exposure of bone underneath. He had said “always” to convince her, assure her, of permanency.

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• She had been looking all along for a friend, and it took her a while to discover that a lover was not a comrade and could never be—for a woman.

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• Eva said yes, but inside she disagreed and remained convinced that Sula had watched Hannah burn not because she was paralyzed, but because she was interested.

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• In a way, her strangeness, her naïveté, her craving for the other half of her equation was the consequence of an idle imagination. Had she paints, or clay, or knew the discipline of the dance, or strings; had she anything to engage her tremendous curiosity and her gift for metaphor, she might have exchanged the restlessness and preoccupation with whim for an activity that provided her with all she yearned for. And like any artist with no art form, she became dangerous.

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• They insisted that all unions between white men and black women be rape; for a black woman to be willing was literally unthinkable. In that way, they regarded integration with precisely the same venom that white people did.

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• Bottom
• Medallion
• Road
• Tar Baby
• Half Pool Hall

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Series & Lists edit see section history

Preceded by The Black Prince, and followed by Invisible Cities.

Preceded by Fall on Your Knees, and followed by East of Eden.

Preceded by Studs Lonigan, and followed by The Stand.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Toni Morrison (Author)

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• Dewey: 813.54

Notes for Parents edit see section history

Contains some vulgar language, and adult themes.

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• Books › Literature & Fiction › World Literature › United States › African American › Morrison, Toni
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Authors, A-Z › ( M ) › Morrison, Toni
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Women's Fiction › Friendship
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Literary
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary

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