If chocolate was a sound, it would’ve been Constantine’s voice singing. If singing was a color, it would’ve been the color of that chocolate.
Bosoms, are for bedrooms and breastfeeding. Not for occasions with dignity.
Kindness don’t have no boundaries.
She got a confused, disgusted look on her face, like she done salted her coffee instead a sugared it.
I tucked this away, afraid to admit how good it was to hear it.
It’s so hot, Mister Dunn’s rooster walks in my door and squats his red self right in front of my kitchen fan. I come in to find him looking at me like ‘I ain’t moving nowhere, lady.
Saying thank you, when you really mean it, when you remember what someone done for you-she shakes her head, stares down at the scratched table-it’s so good.
She’s like a Philistine on a Sunday, the way she won’t take but so many steps a day. Except every day’s Sunday around here.
Great books give you a feeling that you miss all day, until you finally get to crawl back inside those pages again.
I have decided not to die.
I nursed a worthless, pint drinker for twelve years and when my lazy, life-sucking, daddy finally died, I swore to God with tears in my eyes I’d never marry one. And then I did.
Mrs. Charlotte Phelan’s Guide to Husband-Hunting, Rule Number One: a pretty, petite girl should accentuate with makeup and good posture. A tall plain one, with a trust fund.
I tell myself that’s what you get when you put thirty-one toilets on the most popular girl’s front yard. People tend to treat you a little differently than before.
That’s all a grit is, a vehicle. For whatever it is you rather be eating.
She hug me around my neck, say, “You’re righter than Miss Taylor.” I tear up then. My cup is spilling over. Those is new words to me.
Bosoms are for bedrooms and breastfeeding.
But after Mr. Evers got shot a week ago, lot a colored folk is frustrated in this town. Especially the younger ones, who ain’t built up a callus yet.
I was surprise to see the world didn’t stop just cause my boy did.
Stuart needs “space” and “time,” as if this were physics and not a human relationship.
Down in the national news section, there’s an article on a new pill, the ‘Valium’ they’re calling it, ‘to help women cope with everyday challenges.’ God, I could use about ten of those little pills right now.