Bernice L. McFadden Quotes
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You can't expect a child not to become a product of his environment. If you're a drinker, you'll raise a drunk. If you're a single mother, traipsing men in and out of your bedroom in front of your girl child - mark my words, in time she'll claim a corner and charge money for what you gave away for free. Kings and queens raise princes and princesses. That's just the way it is.
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Baby, everybody got their own reasons for doing things they do in life.
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The men know that black women are women at the very least; magical at their zenith and biblical at the core, being with a black woman was as sacred as dousing oneself in holy water.
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She'd seen people stand on the shoulders of hate and pluck money and power from the very top shelves of the universe.
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Women were always ready to give themselves over for love, when all the men really had to offer them was the word and not the meaning behind it.
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She giggles at the thought and realizes quite suddenly that Donovan is religion to her.
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J.W. and Roy didn’t just snatch the childhood away from Emmett; they stole it from every single black child in Mississippi.
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Baby, everybody got their own reasons for doing things they do in life. It don’t matter what her reason was at the time, what matters is she come back for you, and even though you might think it’s too late, it ain’t never too late where a mother and her child is concerned.
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Listen, if you choose to believe nothing else that transpires here, believe this: your body does not have a soul; your soul has a body, and souls never, ever die.
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What kinda women you is? You gonna let a man lay up on another woman in your own house and not do nothing about it?
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She would watch with glee as Rain was relegated to standing in her shoes; Easter hoped to God they pinched.