Sherri L. Smith > Quotes

“I wish the army had taught us how to navigate feelings as easily as they did a starless night sky.”
― Sherri L. Smith, Flygirl

“If you're colored, you get the short end of the stick. If you're a woman, you get the short end of the stick. So what do we get for being colored and women?”
― Sherri L. Smith, Flygirl

“There's something straight in the way she stands that says she's seen what the world looks like from the clouds.”
― Sherri L. Smith, Flygirl

“Some choices, once you make them, they stay made.”
― Sherri L. Smith, Orleans

“Time should not embarrass itself by moving forward, bringing only pale imitations of a perfect night.”
― Sherri L. Smith, The Blossom and the Firefly

“The thing I’m finally learning is that someone can be your best friend in the world, but you’re not necessarily theirs.”
― Sherri L. Smith, Pasadena

“And there it is. I love my mother. And I kick myself for not being able to show it. Because she still loves me, even if she sucks at it sometimes. She”
― Sherri L. Smith, Pasadena

“superior”
― Sherri L. Smith, What Is the Civil Rights Movement?

“Mickey”
― Sherri L. Smith, What Is the Civil Rights Movement?

“I see rough men with thick hands and scars." Stranglers and knife-wielding murderers he imagined.
"Sailors," Samir said simply. "Their hands are rough from work, and the scars are from battling the rapids of the Danube, not tavern brawls.”
― Sherri L. Smith, The Toymaker’s Apprentice

“The first meal a true survivor swallows is his pride”
― Sherri L. Smith, The Toymaker’s Apprentice

“The thing I’m finally learning is that someone can be your best friend in the world, but you’re not necessarily theirs. I”
― Sherri L. Smith, Pasadena

“children”
― Sherri L. Smith, What Is the Civil Rights Movement?

“succeed.”
― Sherri L. Smith, What Is the Civil Rights Movement?

“You go to work, you go home, you've got a family and the sun's still shining...you're happy. - Sherri L. Smith, (Flygirl, 2008)”
― Sherri L. Smith

“heritage”
― Sherri L. Smith, What Is the Civil Rights Movement?