Black Husband White Wife Quotes

“Five months ago?” I asked stunned. “You haven’t had a period in five month and you’re just making an appointment to see a doctor? I thought we agreed to wait a year.  You stopped taking your birth control pills early I see.” I said as I hugged and kissed my wife. She had just made me the happiest man alive.”
― Octavia Grant, Black Husband White Wife

“Yeah, she was. But I only loved one person and she wasn’t her. When she gave me that money, I used it to put the down payment on Savonna’s first BMW. Like I said, I don’t know why we as men run around looking for extras when we already have all we need at home. I’ll never give Savonna up. I don’t care if I have to load her up with twenty kids. I’ll never give another man the chance to take her away from me. It’s selfish, but it’s facts.”
― Octavia Grant, Black Husband White Wife

“Tamika. Shelby and I are going out for dinner and drinks to celebrate this new chapter in our lives. Are you interested in joining us?” I asked. I was hoping for shock value, but if Tamika was shocked, she didn’t show it.”
― Octavia Grant, Black Husband White Wife

“I was far from conceited, but I was to fine to be treated like a nigga that had to beg for pussy. I was tall, muscular, with bronze skin and light brown eyes. Good wavy hair that I kept cut low. Many women flocked to me, she should’ve felt honored that I even gave her a few moments of my time.”
― Octavia Grant, Black Husband White Wife

“Let me get this straight, you despise black women. But you took a bet to have sex with one, get her pregnant, and marry her. Who bet you to marry Tamika? More importantly, why did you accept that bet?” Jeremy asked now furrowing his eyebrows like his twin brother.”
― Octavia Grant, Black Husband White Wife

“Don’t tell him nothing Sly. I’ve been trying to beat it in his head all morning. I tried telling him that white women, black women, orange women, and green women are all the same. If a bitch ain’t shit, she ain’t shit. No matter what color she is. Race has nothing to do with a person’s character.” Jeremy said still holding the spiked bat. I ignored Jeremy and focused on what Sly said.”
― Octavia Grant, Black Husband White Wife

“All the negative traits that you described are traits that all women, not just black women, possess.”
― Octavia Grant, Black Husband White Wife

“No man, especially a black man, wanted to hear anything about the bigoted and racist President Trump, or 45 as Tamika called him, sending black people to Africa. A black woman’s mouth was the reason I preferred white women. White women had manners when they spoke. Tamika was out of line.”
― Octavia Grant, Black Husband White Wife

“Being with you is disrespectful to me. You are nowhere close to what I like. Everyone that knows me, knows what type of women I prefer. Hell, even you know. When my friends ask me why I married someone like you, I don’t have an answer for them. This marriage is pointless and I’m no longer wasting your time or mine. I did what I did the past few nights because I wanted to see if I could muster any feelings for you, and I couldn’t. That’s why I didn’t put my dick in you. I couldn’t even get hard enough with you. Your kind just doesn’t do it for me.”
― Octavia Grant, Black Husband White Wife

“Because you don’t mean shit to me Tamika. That’s why. Everything about you screams ghetto and ratchet. You know the only reason I married your black ass is because I fucked up and got you pregnant. You knew that you weren’t my caliber of woman.”
― Octavia Grant, Black Husband White Wife

“I learned the grass damn sure ain’t greener on the other side.”
― Octavia Grant, Black Husband White Wife

“I hope you learned that you can’t judge people based on their color. A person’s character is not skin deep.”
― Octavia Grant, Black Husband White Wife

“Getting involved with and marrying Shelby Maddox was the worst mistake of my life. As a black man, I felt like a damn fool downplaying my own race of women.”
― Octavia Grant, Black Husband White Wife

“Mannnn, these kids need to take their ass to bed. I don’t care that it’s only 7:00 PM. They need to go to sleep.”
― Octavia Grant, Black Husband White Wife

“It seems like the only person that has all the negative traits that you’re accusing black women of, is you.”
― Octavia Grant, Black Husband White Wife

“I’m sorry that your childhood was filled with so much hurt and pain by the women that were supposed to love you. But honey you have to find a way to let that pain go. You cannot condemn all black women for the mistakes and heartache caused by your mother, stepmother, and foster mother.”
― Octavia Grant, Black Husband White Wife

“Good Luck Sidney. You’re gonna need it.” Tamika smirked as she walked out of the courtroom looking like new money.”
― Octavia Grant, Black Husband White Wife

“Setting her down, I looked over at Tamika as she gathered her things with a smile on her face. I couldn’t believe that she was really ok with the fact that we were no longer married. Somehow, I wasn’t ok with that. It bothered me that she was completely emotionless.”
― Octavia Grant, Black Husband White Wife

“They’re not called blue eyed devils for nothing.”
― Octavia Grant, Black Husband White Wife

“All I’m saying is the way you talk about our sisters is like you have a deep rooted and seething hate for them.”
― Octavia Grant, Black Husband White Wife

“Both Jeremy and Shawn believed I was making a mistake. They felt like Tamika was a good woman and mother. But in my opinion, good wasn’t good enough. Why would I settle for good, when I already had excellent?”
― Octavia Grant, Black Husband White Wife

“It seems like nobody hates a black woman, like a black man.”
― Octavia Grant, Black Husband White Wife

“Do you know what you are Sidney? You’re an ol’Uncle Ruckus ass nigga. Steven the Butler from Django ass nigga. News Flash Sidney Malik Collier. A house nigger, is still a nigger. ‘Light nigga, dark nigga, faux nigga, real nigga, rich nigga, po’ nigga, house nigga, field nigga. Still Nigga.” Tamika said as she stood in front of me with her head held high.”
― Octavia Grant, Black Husband White Wife

“I knew the way I was talking to Tamika was wrong and out of line. She didn’t deserve the harsh way that I was treating her or speaking to her. I knew my words were beating her down, but like most black women she refused to show emotion. Even though I knew she was hurt.”
― Octavia Grant, Black Husband White Wife

“looks weren’t enough to keep a man, especially a real man, happy. Good looks were a nonfactor when you no longer wanted the person with the beautiful face.”
― Octavia Grant, Black Husband White Wife

“no one wants to feel like they can’t find peace in their own home.”
― Octavia Grant, Black Husband White Wife

“working folk usually need time to relax and unwind after standing on their feet all day.”
― Octavia Grant, Black Husband White Wife

“Tamika was my wife, but she wasn’t my type. I knew that she wasn’t my type when I approached her. Had I ignored her, I wouldn’t have ended up trapped with the wrong woman. I didn’t enjoy talking to her, having sex with her, or even lying in bed with her.”
― Octavia Grant, Black Husband White Wife

“I married her for convenience and because of that choice I was living in hell.”
― Octavia Grant, Black Husband White Wife

“Even though she had done a lot for me in the past five years, that really didn’t matter. I refused to give her accolades for doing what a wife was supposed to do for her husband. She was fulfilling her duty as a wife and that’s the only way I saw it.”
― Octavia Grant, Black Husband White Wife