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     Toni Morrison’s writing is multi-layered, thick and rich with complexity;   a person could read her novels over and over and still find something new to ponder in them.   She writes unforgettable  prose.   I wonder how she does what she does?   It must be a god given gift.      This fact is totally off topic, but Toni Morrison also has one of the most beautiful heads of hair I ever seen.  I will be examining a passage from chapter "1921" in the hardcover Borzoi version of Sula that was published in 1973 by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York. Brief summary of chapter “1921” Eva Peace, Sula’s Grandmother is married to BoyBoy and they have three children, Hannah, Pearl/Eva, and Plum/Ralph. They live in the hill community of Medallion, Ohio which is called The Bottom. BoyBoy deserts the family. After saving baby Plum’s life by curing his severe constipation, Eva leaves her children with a neighbor for eighteen months...

The Detroit Riots of 1967 My mother said that our house could possibly be blown up and we had to be ready to leave at a moment's notice. When any of us children questioned her about what was going on she would change the subject. She just dressed us up in our best clothes and cooked a Sunday dinner of chicken, greens, and macaroni and cheese. I was to start school later that year at Glazer Elementary. My older sister was ten. I also had a two year old sister, and a one year old brother. We had just moved with our mother from an apartment in the Clairmont and Fourteenth area onto the top of a two family flat on Kendall between Rosa Parks and the John Lodge Expressway. Our new flat was about a mile from the riot area on Twelth and Clairmont. Ironically, I have very fond memories of the riot neighborhood. I remember being sent out with my older sister when I was three and she was eight to buy bologna and bread for our dinner. We wandered hand in hand over railroad tracks and crowded s...