Welcome to 111 Words, by Andrew Shields

"I hurt just like them white women": Black maternity in "The Bluest Eye"

"It was odd how soon one got used to cars without horses"

"None of us feel anything at all, she thought; we're all pretending": Delia Pargiter in Virginia Woolf's "The Years"

The closed coffin in Toni Morrison and Patricia Smith

"Something else to be" for Sula and Nel in Toni Morrison's "Sula"

"Because we have more tests, we have more cases": President Trump's absurd touchstone