Extemporaneous musings, occasionally poetic, about life in its richly varied dimensions, especially as relates to history, theology, law, literature, science, by one who is an attorney, ordained minister, historian, writer, and African American.
Tuesday, January 21, 2020
TONI AND ZORA
TONI AND ZORA
Toni Morrison wrote about such things as babies born with a caul over its face; or a baby born without a navel; or African people who fly back home upon death.
I have read very few of her books. But what I have read has been memorable “the sounds a woman’s thighs make rubbing together in corduroy pants .”
Toni reminds me of Zora Neal Hurston, another Bison sister of an earlier era , ethos , who delighted to plumb the depthless contours of our African American history, culture, as did her earlier writer-Howard sister.