Rita Williams-Garcia Quotes

We all have our la-la-la song. The thing we do when the world isn't singing a nice tune to us. We sing our own nice tune to drown out ugly.

Saying "please" without saying it to someone you don't want to say "please" to in the first place tops the list of hard.

mixing comes natural. i just ought to. not am i mixed to perfection, i have aptitude for art and colors.

I pressed and I prayed. It was only right that pressing went with prayer. That and being sorry. Every wrinkle was a patch of sorry to be smoothed and flattened.

It was a strange, wonderful feeling. To discover eyes upon you when you expected no one to notice you at all.

The last thing Pa and Big Ma wanted to hear was how we made a grand Negro spectacle of ourselves thirty thousand feet up in the air around all these white people.