Parts of the Twitter community spent the week roasting white people for giving southern plantations bad Yelp reviews, exalting Megan Thee Stallion and clowning Zendaya.
But most of Twitter was mourning the extraordinary loss of literary titan Toni Morrison, who died on Monday. Twitter spent the rest of the week circulating her best quotes and quips from decades of interviews.
Here are your Tweets of the week.
For my ???? first cover story ever ???? I talked to the woman who managed to take over an entire season:
The unprecedented Hot Girl AKA Todoroki Tina AKA Megan @theestallion – for @papermagazine ???? https://t.co/qkZvP1NscC
pic.twitter.com/gJUtiBSnlh— Kiana Fitzgerald (@KianaFitz) August 8, 2019
Firstly, Megan Thee Stallion continues her complete and utter domination of all things Twitter, starting the week off with viral videos of her performing with Drake and taking shots with Lizzo.
@Drake brings out Megan @theestallion at #OvoFest2019
#OVOFest
#megantheestallion
#hotgirl
pic.twitter.com/YjhtgeDCmG— Megan Thee Stallion (@theehottiemeg) August 6, 2019
Hotties @lizzo has joined us on the boat ????????♀️???? REAL HOT GIRL SHIT pic.twitter.com/0n4VMZAq3B
— HOT GIRL MEG (@theestallion) August 8, 2019
HOUSTON WE HAVE A PROBLEM @theestallion
pic.twitter.com/aY1wF62Oo2— |L I Z Z O| (@lizzo) August 8, 2019
She ended the week by finally cashing in on her ubiquitous "Hot Girl Summer" phrase with a new hit to ride out the summer.
#HotGirlSummer by Megan Thee Stallion, Nicki Minaj & Ty Dolla $ign debuts at #7 on US Apple Music.
It is the first female rap collaboration to reach the top 10 of the chart since Minaj's own "Motorsport" back in 2017. pic.twitter.com/rdLF4J1iBd
— The Pop Hub (@ThePopHub) August 9, 2019
People also took time to post screenshots of reviews from people who thought southern plantations should be more, um, uplifting?
This is how decent white people who tell the truth about slavery on plantations are reviewed by white people. pic.twitter.com/xiomBzPpWl
— saira rao (@sairasameerarao) August 7, 2019
did blake lively write this https://t.co/a2gsVF6kkM
— hunter harris (@hunteryharris) August 8, 2019
the fact that many americans think of plantation as vacation destinations to be enjoyed like disney world is sort of all you need to know to understand how we got to this place in our politics https://t.co/CcpoaN8T1N
— b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie) August 8, 2019
As always, there was an assortment of random viral Tweets that had us all bursting with laughter.
I truly hate this damn app sometimes…
I’ve worked to hard for this shit lmao https://t.co/hQVTY5AqOg— Zendaya (@Zendaya) August 8, 2019
This is what an updated Home Alone would actually look like. pic.twitter.com/sGj86933LA
— Macaulay Culkin (@IncredibleCulk) August 7, 2019
for the next person that comes in my life and breaks my heart pic.twitter.com/GsRcM8Xqge
— armani (@stfuarmani) August 7, 2019
*finger gets wet*
Touch ID: pic.twitter.com/F4M9CZiGVy
— armani (@stfuarmani) August 6, 2019
https://t.co/P6YXqwG18Z
pic.twitter.com/JM1veaAh2m— no (@miskeencore) June 26, 2019
These Iguanas doing a maternity photo pose pic.twitter.com/QfcnEQNT2x
— 41 Strange (@41Strange) August 6, 2019
Thankfully, most of Twitter spent the week honoring and celebrating American icon Toni Morrison after she passed away at 88 on Monday.
Toni Morrison had the only good take on family.
This is from a TIME interview in 1989 (I first saw it excerpted in One Dimensional Woman) at the height of the teen pregnancy scares. pic.twitter.com/agqRcRvD5K
— Sarah Leonard (@sarahrlnrd) August 6, 2019
"It has to be both: beautiful & political at the same time. I’m not interested in art that is not in the world. And it’s not just the narrative, it’s not just the story; it’s the language & the structure & what’s going on behind it."
—Toni Morrison (1931–2019) pic.twitter.com/FEncMHvTX3
— Poets.org (@POETSorg) August 6, 2019
This morning, I was thinking about how my dad — who could see I was hellbent on being a writer — wrote to Time magazine with a question to Toni Morrison and SHE RESPONDED. The clipping got lost long ago, but I Googled it and oh my god I'm treasuring this screenshot forever. pic.twitter.com/oagl9GntDX
— lauren is drafting (@laurenwethers) August 6, 2019
Toni Morrison was so intentional about cultivating ways for Black women to reclaim our stories, centred within love as a radical, everyday practice. She posed the question: what does it mean to rename that which was not beloved as Beloved? With it, she changed our lives ???????????????? pic.twitter.com/9gnftXSBme
— jade (@divanificent) August 6, 2019
"I stood at the border, stood at the edge, and claimed it as central. And let the rest of the world move over where I was."
-Toni Morrison-
— local black artist (@hypercathected) August 6, 2019
“Being a black woman writer is not a shallow place but a rich place to write from. It doesn’t limit my imagination; it expands it.”
Rest easy, Toni Morrison ???? pic.twitter.com/kfX4hLhfeo
— ً (@blackityblvck) August 6, 2019
#ToniMorrison, our forever truth teller ✨ pic.twitter.com/WhccYE922N
— Yaba Blay (@fiyawata) August 6, 2019
“If you look at the world as a brutal game, then you bump into the mystery of the tree-shaped scar. There seems to be such a thing as grace, such a thing as beauty, such a thing as harmony. All of which are wholly free and available to us.” Your life was our gift, #ToniMorrison
pic.twitter.com/wcD7w9zKYp— Ava DuVernay (@ava) August 6, 2019
I love this photograph, and think about it often. Toni Morrison, June Jordan, Audrey Edwards, Alice Walker, Nana Maynard, Ntzoke Shange, and Vertamae Grosvenor at the first meeting of their writing group, "The Sisterhood." (part of June Jordan Papers, Harvard Schlesinger Library) pic.twitter.com/lYL59NCCTL
— Annie Furuyama (@_afuruyama) August 6, 2019
When we talk about:
1. Taking up space
2. Writing with intention
3. Telling our own stories
4. Having a POV
5. And not creating simply to be palatable for white consumptionThat’s the table Toni Morrison —who was talking about all of this 30, 40 years ago— was setting for us. pic.twitter.com/0ZErDNEEpV
— Dani Kwateng-Clark (@danikwateng) August 6, 2019
Imagine destroying someone with this much grace https://t.co/mXWMHLZDWF
— melissa lozada-oliva (@ellomelissa) August 6, 2019
Hopefully, the Morrison tributes will continue on into next week. Happy Friday!
