Beverly Jenkins Quotes
-
Livy says when her mama and papa are happy she hears them jumping on the bed at night. Are you going to jump on the bed?
-
Thank you for loving me, Kent, because if I was married to him, I would have killed him so many years ago, I’d be paroled by now.
-
The catsuit would hug her frame like steam on glass.
-
She didn’t believe that anyone should be made to spend the entire time on earth as property of someone else. No matter what it took, she was determined to see them free before she went to her grave.
-
A man is only as strong as the woman who holds him.
-
Most men like you are always interested in women like myself, but what they fail to see is this is my job, it isn’t necessarily who I am. People tend to meld the two and fail to realize that distinction.
-
Every day is a gift -- start unwrapping them.
-
Life often has a way of negating nevers.
-
This is senior citizen profiling and I will not put up with it one more minute.
-
Although there were only five children enrolled, every educated child was an asset to the race.
-
If you were the man of my heart, I’d be your wife, not mistress. I don’t share well.
-
There were undoubtedly worse things than being an unmarried woman in charge of her own life, free to come and go as she pleased, free to explore pleasure.
-
What role was she expected to play in his life, and more important, in her own?
-
Women can’t advance if they pick up their skirts and run every time a man growls.
-
I don’t think you ever get over it, but you do get through it.
-
They’d also considered themselves distinct enough from the rest of the Blacks in the country to have met with Lincoln during the war in an effort to have themselves declared a separate class and thus eligible for the rights inherent in such a designation, but the effort had failed.
-
Neither am I. A grown man should be able to acknowledge a sincerely offered apology and converse in sentences consisting of more than five words.
-
I’ve always believed the Spirit puts people in our lives for a reason. I’m not sure if that applies to eleven-year-old carjackers, but we’ll work with what the Spirit sends.
-
Carry on, please. Women don’t usually take a skillet to his head and I’m anxious to witness it.
-
Men were surprised by her unconventional ways all the time.
-
Because the world needs sons and daughters with the courage of their fathers, and you are a courageous man.
-
Your sweetness is so much stronger than their hate.
-
Because you’re the county’s matriarch. You’re loved, respected, and there may not be enough of you left for your family to bury if we have to extract you from a flipped over, burning truck. Don’t put your people through that.
-
Because we can't tell others about our accomplishments if we don't know them ourselves.