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“I don’t want to hear nothing else about who need me. I need myself, Lena.”

“…Etta James was floating from the speakers. I stood in the middle of the dance floor, letting her fill me up. I felt my life opening.”

🥹💕 “Being a colored woman, it's easy to think we don't have many choices, and that's a fact a lot of the time. Too much of the time. But there are so many things we can choose. Maybe they seem like small things and maybe they are. But they add up. If you're lucky, they add up to a life. You hear?"
"Yes, Miss Julia."
"Alright

🥹💕

"I been thinking about the other question you asked me…About how I knew my life could be different. What I told you, about a voice inside me, that's true. But there's another true thing. I didn't know. Because nobody can know that.

"The most true thing is that I made a choice. I chose not to believe all the people who told me my lite couldn't be different. And then I kept on choosing…”

“What’s so wrong about wanting to feel like somebody loves you the most?”
“The (most)?” She shook her head. “Why should love be a competition?”

“a certain politician rhymes with (foul)?”

WHO are they talking about???

“You could’ve buttered my ass and called me toast…” LMAO! I love her writing!

“Most colored girls have more voices telling them what they can't do than what they can. A lot of those voices speak in the name of love, or what they believe is love. And maybe it is love. But there's a whole heap of fear piled up on top of it, too.”

“you forgot me like a song from last summer,”

“In so many ways, you can’t choose what you give to your daughter, you just give her what you have.”

They doing all this over a man that I imagine looks like Norbert…

What black-and-white document had Dana already given to Chaurisse?

“I hadn’t been accepted to any of the Sisters. Even the stepsister turned me down.”

Sister schools.

🪄“There was magic in taking them from where they were, to where they wanted to be. It was a miracle every time.”

When a woman’s fed up…

“Girls like us, the ones who have been found out, our nerves are on edge like broken teeth.” — found out, how? what does Chaurisse mean by that?

“Silver” is what I called girls who were natural beauties…”

Not Chaurrise losing her virginity in the same place Dana did…

“He had some questions about the whole dynamic of the SPARROW.”

“My parents are not good looking people, either. My dad is medium everything — my mother…could be anyone’s mother — as medium as my father… If you saw them walking down the street, if you noticed them at all, you would think the two of them might produce invisible children.”

They did though. Dana and Chaurisse are invisible to each other

It’s weird how Gwendolyn & Laverne both treat their daughters as their friends… what happened to “ staying in a child’s place”?

“She knew that sometimes women died while having babies, and she thought that if she were lucky, this is what would happen to her.”

Very dramatic…

The way that Gwen & James puts Dana right in the middle of grown folks’ business is not right

So Ronalda feels like an outsider in her family, too…

“He was just born at the wrong time, which is something that could happen to anyone.”

“Who doesn’t dream of being rescued? Who doesn’t desire grand gestures?”