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“The revolution still hadn't come even though I peered out the window every day in anticipation. Gerte swept the stoop every day at four, Mrs. Levy turned on the television at five , Daddy went to work at six and Aunt Lily prepared to go uptown to commune with possibility and the future at seven.”

“ERMINA: She white.
GODFREY: Well should we all sit ?
ERMINA: Why ? She won't be white if we sit down?”

“In the movies men are heroes, broad shouldered and impervious to danger. Their lives are perfect formulas resolved in ninety minutes. But as daddy would say, ‘they white.’”

“Vanity is a weapon. I’m not tryna kill you I’m tryna make you beautiful enough to kill others.”