MAVIS NICHOLSON: "Do you think it is possible, then, for someone to forgive themselves even when they've done something absolutely terrible?"
TONI MORRISON: "Yes. It's called grace. At some point you do. If you don't, you're in a cul-de-sac. But you have to go through the fire first. You have to experience the full fall, and the complete self-loathing, in order to come around to something like the forgiving of oneself. It's when you skip responsibility, when you use a subsititute emotion like guilt--which is of no use to anyone--but if you feel the real thing which is shame, hatred, humiliation, and self-loathing: that is the door. And if you get through that, then you can forgive yourself."
The lovely @hundredthousands-art let me take one of my favorite art works of theirs and turn it into an animation! I had so much fun making this, you don't even know! Remember to turn on sound for the video and to check out the amazing comic by HT that inspired this piece!
It's hilarious to me how in these two episodes I had to rewatch some scenes because I was watching the characters in the background instead of reading the subtitles.