Black Dove Quotes

“And if you believe in God, I think She doesn’t work that way either.”
― Ana Castillo, Black Dove: Mamá, Mi'jo, and Me

“I tried to understand how in every journey a man or woman was both hero and anti-hero at varying times. Years”
― Ana Castillo, Black Dove: Mamá, Mi'jo, and Me

“In what neighborhood—town or city, rural area or village in the country—could I raise a brown boy and believe that no harm could ever come to him, where”
― Ana Castillo, Black Dove: Mamá, Mi'jo, and Me

“thought of the countless people in the world who were born to live and die in anonymity, playing out lives no better or worse than anyone else’s and no one noticing. Sometimes we give others who don’t make a big mark in some way a moment in the limelight in fiction. Our novelists’ eyes and ears say to our readers, “Look here, please. Listen. This existence mattered, too.” That”
― Ana Castillo, Black Dove: Mamá, Mi'jo, and Me

“Protect him, yes, with my life; spare him of learning responsibility and to take care of himself, no. During”
― Ana Castillo, Black Dove: Mamá, Mi'jo, and Me