If there’s no one else to tell another side - the only story that can be told is the story that becomes true. (p. 173)

I don't know if it's better to have people laugh at what you are or just not understand.

I'm not the color of my skin. I'm a story. One with a past and a future unwritten.

A woman made of parts is a dangerous thing. You never know when she'll throw away a piece you may need.

I think what a family is shouldn't be so hard to see. It should be the one thing people know just by looking at you.

A woman made of parts is a dangerous thing, " Grandma says. "You never know when she'll throw away a piece you may need...

Grandma sees these things when she talks about them and gestures with her hands like she's painting brush strokes in the air. The way Grandma paints her dreams for me, there's a low sky.

Trust is the fruit of a relationship in which you know you are loved.

Leaves lift trees.

Silence can bring us into alignment with our thoughts and feelings and help us to hear the quiet spiritual voice of our intuition.

I can, therefore I am.

The finance enchains with golden bonds states and peoples, the economy becomes nomadic, the life uprooted.

We have an insanity plea that would have saved Cain.

never believe a man can change a woman those men are pretenders who think that they created women from one of their ribs

The discrimination is not made openly, but a Negro who goes to such places is informed that there are no accommodations, or he is overlooked and otherwise slighted, so that he does not come again.

Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.

Though I often run out of courage and good sense, stubbornness keeps me going.