Toni Morrison is a Fucking Goddess and She Told Me It’s Time for a Girlfriends Movie

Nicole Racquel Carr
Nov 5 · 5 min read

Toni Morrison once dismissed critics labeling Sula a lesbian novel. “Friendship between women is special, different, and has never been depicted as the major focus of a novel before Sula. Nobody ever talked about friendship between women unless it was homosexual, and there is no homosexuality in Sula.” Still, Black Feminist Barbara Smith argued, “Sula is an exceedingly lesbian text.” In today’s “woke” culture, Morrison’s refusal to see Sula as anything but a text about friendship might have gotten her canceled…

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