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Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment”. In the novel Sula by Toni Morrison two best friends, Sula Peace and Nel Wright, grow up together and are each other’s missing halves. Both being African American women in a tough time, they promised each other to stay true to themselves and live their lives in complete freedom. Both also having similar life changing childhoods, the two girls strayed apart throughout the course of life. Nel loses her identity to fit in and be normal, whereas Sula outlasted great deals of hate, just to stay true to who she is.