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The kitchen woman with legs like parentheses.

— Twyla (narration) · Toni Morrison, Recitatif (1983)

I didn't kick her; I didn't join in with the gar girls and kick that lady, but I sure did want to.

— Twyla (narration) · Toni Morrison, Recitatif (1983)

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Recitatif

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