Ethic Quotes

“black, mixed with blacker, full of sweet juice and scented like shea butter. He wanted the woman he ended up with to be able to relate to his experience, to know what it was like to have strength and resilience, not because it was learned, but because it was inherited from generations of black people who had to be strong before her. He wanted nappy hair and intelligence. He wanted a woman that could make a feast out of a bag of beans and a neck bone, if he fell on hard times, and it was all he could afford. A woman who could raise his children, if his karma came and took him away prematurely. She didn’t have to come with much. In fact, she could have nothing. If her soul was pure, and her heart linked to his own, he had enough to share with the right one.”
― Ashley Antoinette, Ethic

“it’s the rocks with the most flaws that turn into the finest diamonds.”
― Ashley Antoinette, Ethic

“​No woman, especially a black woman, should have to do anything to keep anything; but somehow, every woman had done just that at least once in their lifetime.”
― Ashley Antoinette, Ethic

“He hated that every black woman he knew carried too much on them. They were like magical beings that were expected to play 10, different roles every day, often switching them at the drop of a dime, without ever missing a beat. He often wondered how they did it.”
― Ashley Antoinette, Ethic

“It seemed black women were never given that luxury of emotional release”
― Ashley Antoinette, Ethic

“A man without a woman was half of a man, emotionally stunted, and overcompensating in every area of his life to make up for what he lacked in companionship. A king could not reign without a queen to keep him strong. If man was the walls of a house, holding everything up, bearing the weight of all that inhabited it, his woman was the foundation. You could tear down walls, but a foundation was rock solid.”
― Ashley Antoinette, Ethic

“A man that have you cooking food he doesn’t provide is not a man,”
― Ashley Antoinette, Ethic

“First the man fixed your car for free, now he done bought you a new one,” Nannie said. “It’s gon’ take way more than a pie to thank him for this one. Better give that boy some pussy.”
― Ashley Antoinette, Ethic

“but Morgan, my baby girl doesn’t know it. She was born differently, and she doesn’t realize it’s the rocks with the most flaws that turn into the finest diamonds.”
― Ashley Antoinette, Ethic

“​“A man takes care of his woman. If this is about a woman, then a man would be at her side.”
― Ashley Antoinette, Ethic

“He was effortlessly deadly, callously calculating, and unforgivingly deceptive.”
― Ashley Antoinette, Ethic

“He would make sure Morgan was straight, but as soon as she closed her eyes, he had every intention of committing murder tonight.”
― Ashley Antoinette, Ethic

“Nigga ain’t even funny. Goofy bitch just being extra, Morgan thought. She hated that Messiah had reduced her to a hater.”
― Ashley Antoinette, Ethic

“The reward for a good life lived was to meet that soul that was intended to be your mate.”
― Ashley Antoinette, Ethic

“If he was passing out baby daddy passes and food stamp cards, I’d be first in line.”
― Ashley Antoinette, Ethic

“Flesh of her own flesh, blood of her own blood. It was like walking around with half of you in a grave. She was the living dead, as well as every mother who had ever lost a child.”
― Ashley Antoinette, Ethic