“We all a little like our mommas, but you ain’t your momma. I’m sorry for sayin’ this, but she a disappointed and selfish woman, ugly and hateful inside. Maybe she always that way, maybe life hammered her into it. I can’t say. But what I do know is you and me, we been through some things together. Hard things. And I ain’t never seen you act selfish. You fight for what’s right. There’s nothin’ to be ashamed in that.

