What A Mother's Love Don't Teach You Quotes

“Hand at bowl, knife at throat” but Mama teach mi dat. Not everybody who offer yuh something is genuine. Dem give yuh a bowl of food wid one hand and draw knife at yuh neck wid the other.”
― Sharma Taylor, What A Mother's Love Don't Teach You: 'An outstanding debut' Cherie Jones

“Hand at bowl, knife at throat”
― Sharma Taylor, What A Mother's Love Don't Teach You: 'An outstanding debut' Cherie Jones

“appreciate good things but because life had proved you shouldn’t express too much excitement, in case the goodness got taken away.”
― Sharma Taylor, What A Mother's Love Don't Teach You: 'An outstanding debut' Cherie Jones

“To be African American is to be African without any memory and American without any privilege.”
― Sharma Taylor, What A Mother's Love Don't Teach You: 'An outstanding debut' Cherie Jones

“The hand squeezing the throat, and the throat itself too.”
― Sharma Taylor, What A Mother's Love Don't Teach You: 'An outstanding debut' Cherie Jones