Black Girls Must Die Exhausted Quotes
"At our foundation, love is the language that we all speak and the very lifeblood of our existence."
"Struggle somehow makes us unworthy, rather than qualifying us for something greater."
"Every day is a triumph, a victory over forces that try to tear you down."
"If you understand how important it is to celebrate everything that gives us courage, you understand life."
"The easiest way to create change is to do the thing closest at hand."
"We need more diverse perspectives with the expectation and acknowledgment of a more diverse audience."
"Life isn't really about checklist-type problems."
"In reality, the doctor could have been diplomatic. Maybe she said, 'You’ll never be able to have biological children,' or something like 'You won’t be able to use your own eggs.'"
"Communities that were underrepresented in the newsroom were underrepresented in the news."
"Sometimes I do feel like I’m constantly asked to pick feminism, or any other 'ism,' over racism."
"That questioning look, the moments of confusion when it came to me and my grandmother, it’s what we’d dealt with practically my entire life."
"The worn areas showed, but the couch still worked 'for what it was made for,' as my grandmother would say about so many things, including herself."
"She always said that tea made her think of possibilities and new beginnings."
"You’re strong. Like me. I know you’ll figure out a way."
"I'm not a central part of your life any more than you are in mine."
"You can’t undo a baby, but you can undo a marriage!"
"A man that ain’t got no plan for you ain’t your man."
"If he ain’t got no plan for you, then you ain’t what’s important."
"It was like looking at a complete stranger who I’d only seen for the very first time tonight."
"We work our whole adulthood just to get back to who we could have been in the first place."
"Kids are exactly what you should be thinking about right now, if you want ’em! Him too! Girl, he sounds crazy. Good riddance."
"They’re using what’s left of their dusty minds, goin’ over life regrets."
"Time becomes more valuable when you realize it’s running out."
"Funny the things people think are worth fighting over."
"What are you doing? Tabitha, that’s what these young boys do in their text messages when they get lonely and want some female attention. It’s just plain lazy, if you ask me."
"Don’t linger too long on this, baby. Not too much longer."
"You can’t cover sports, we know that, and you’re always bringing up urban issues, in areas that most of our viewers don’t even care about."
"You wouldn’t like it in my real world. I promise you wouldn’t."
"I’ve watched my parents over the years. They’ve stayed together, but I have no idea why."
"I reckon so. Two, your father was one of those guys with bad hair, but a brilliant brain underneath!"
"Because if I had promoted him and then had this conversation with you, we’d be in a lawsuit."
"You will not be one of my life regrets, Marc, you won’t!"
"It’s a huge sacrifice, but we don’t have a lot of other options. We want him to have a sibling."
"I basically have to, or biological children for me is entirely off the table."
"Our insurance plan really should cover things like this."
"If men’s sperm were on a timer, this would have been covered a long time ago!"
"I thought that I was about to have a Me Too moment for real."
"No one noticed what I did one way or another. I would kill for five minutes of solid feedback."
"You know what the beginning of assert is, right?"
"Oh, this is vodka soda. I heard it has fewer calories."
"I’ve been absorbed by my own life—like there’s no me anymore."
"My existence has just been Rob, Rob Jr., Lexington, work, mortgage, get the boys to school, get them to their practices, try to pay attention to Rob, go see Rob’s mama, go see my mama, get my hair done, and maybe catch up with you and Laila, and then, damn! What about me?"
"For a while now, my existence has just been Rob, Rob Jr., Lexington, work, mortgage, get the boys to school, get them to their practices, try to pay attention to Rob, go see Rob’s mama, go see my mama, get my hair done, and maybe catch up with you and Laila, and then, damn! What about me? Where have I been in all of this?"
"I’d look at him sometimes, and look at me and wonder how we could live in a world that treated the two of us so differently, when he came from my own body."
"You walk down the street, the wind blows, and poof! You get pregnant! A bird poops on your shoulder and you get pregnant!"
"Life, no matter what kind of bad happens, it’s all about finding some bit of optimism, some kind of hope that the next moment, or even the moment after that, is going to be all that you had originally wished for, and that your good is still on the way."
"If you use no birth control, no condoms, you walk down the street, the wind blows, and poof! You get pregnant! A bird poops on your shoulder and you get pregnant! You want to get pregnant walking down the street?"
"Sometimes a man has to sit in his stink long enough, and you don’t need to be there for that. Live your life, Two, but just give him the chance to come back around. That’s all I’m saying. Your Marc seems like he could be the rare type."
"He tried to defend me, but Grandpa Walker was in a rage by then. He hit Paul, knocked him down hard to the ground. I didn’t know what else to do, I was young. I ran into the kitchen and got the biggest knife I could find. I told your grandfather to get away from my son."
"And then one day, after the hell and fighting, and even packing up to go… you just know you’re going to make it."
"People can’t stay young forever, Lexi You have two kids. I hope you’re not being too hard on yourself."
"I suppose you’re right, Two," Granny Tab said pensively.
"This weight just crept up on me—just like the rest of my life, it feels like."
"Thank God, because I don’t know how I would have."
"I’ll tell her, Tabby. She’ll be glad to see you."
"You’re still coming, right? To help me get ready?"
"It was a good reminder that Laila was still in there."
"The world has a lot more to hear from you, Laila Joon."
"What I did . . ." She paused, dabbing at her eyes.
"As soon as I swallowed the first pill, I knew it was wrong."
"It doesn’t have to be true, it just has to be said."
"I just have to assume that you thought you were doing the right thing."
"No good and decent officer wants to go home at night knowing that he shot a nineteen-year-old kid."
"Our being joined in this way held the same feeling of mild awkwardness as being made to introduce yourself to a stranger at a networking function."
"Different from the woman threaded through some of my worst memories, this Diane looked older, much older."
"In front of me lay my grandmother in death. But in the rows and rows of full pews behind me, in the people at my sides, and even in the memories inside me, there I could find her life."
"I remember her telling me once that she didn’t wear black to funerals—'Because the ones I go to, we’re lucky to live this long!'"
"For the first time since I was a little girl, I took my father’s hand. And out the door we went without a single word to anybody else."
"She deserved the best of everything I had to give."
"I imagined that I could feel her presence there with me, and maybe she’d be observing in her own quiet way, taking in everything around her and seeing magic in places that other people missed."
"I was surprised to hear that Granny Tab was also a much-beloved counselor—not in the official type of capacity, but the kind who always had an open door, open ears, and an open heart for a kid in crisis."
"I realized that Marc was what I called limited. He was limited in his capacity to commit, to love, to support, and to show up for me in the ways that I couldn’t always name but, well, knew I needed."