Toning the Sweep Quotes

“My grandmama Ola says that yellow is the first color she ever remembers seeing. It was just there, she says. Her mama dressed her in yellow, and back in Alabama there were yellow curtains in the kitchen. Their house sat between two willows. They were yellow in spring.

When Ola found out from the doctor that she was sick and wouldn’t get better, she says all she thought about was how sed’d miss the color yellow. She went home and cooked a pot of corn on the cob and sliced up three lemons to eat.”
― Angela Johnson, Toning the Sweep

“My grandmama Ola says that yellow is the first color she ever remembers seeing. It was just there, she says. Her mama dressed her in yellow, and back in Alabama there were yellow curtains in the kitchen. Their house sat between two willows. They were yellow in spring.

When Ola found out from the doctor that she was sick and wouldn’t get better, she says all she thought about was how sed’d miss the color yellow. She went home and cooke a pot of corn on the cob and sliced up three lemons to eat.”
― Angela Johnson, Toning the Sweep

“I don't know if I'd call either of them restless. Maybe hyperactive about some things. Anyway, I think as long as your soul is still attached to your body, it's impossible for it to be restless. I think you go where your spirit takes you.”
― Angela Johnson, Toning the Sweep

“It's not so reasonable, Emmie, to believe you know everything about everyone's life. So how can you be disappointed at something that happened so long ago. You're angry because you know you have no right to be angry.”
― Angela Johnson, Toning the Sweep