Nik Nicholson > Quotes

“When I look in the mirror without considering what I’ve been told is beautiful, I love my brown skin.  I love my smile.  I love my full lips.”
― Nik Nicholson, Descendants of Hagar

“Their words make me a little sad.  We don’t marvel at just bringing life into the world.  It ain’t enough to survive bringing a healthy baby in the world.  You got to give yo husband a boy.”
― Nik Nicholson, Descendants of Hagar

“We free now, they say, but we waiting on our knees for somebody to come and save us.”
― Nik Nicholson, Descendants of Hagar

“Tomorrow I will be the daughter of the man who raped my mama.  Today, I’m a woman with a mother who hates ‘a because she reminds ‘a of her father.”
― Nik Nicholson, Descendants of Hagar

“Don’t chu let nobody force yo hand.  You strong.  You be strong.  Don’t let them break you.  You ain’t got ta be broke.  You free, gull,”
― Nik Nicholson, Descendants of Hagar

“Death and dying, well, it’s just the way it is.  What you gone do while you alive, that’s what you got power over, and that’s what you need to be worrying about.”
― Nik Nicholson, Descendants of Hagar

“If someone isn’t comfortable with themself, it isn’t our responsibility to make them comfortable by hiding pieces of ourselves.”
― Nik Nicholson, Descendants of Hagar

“who want to be part of a group that pick folks based on things they ain got no control over.”
― Nik Nicholson, Descendants of Hagar

“Every time Mama looked at me, she frowned.  I tried to figure out what I done to make ‘a not love me.  She be hitting me, and I be trying to figure out how to make ‘a love me.  And now I know why, she don’t wont me.”
― Nik Nicholson, Descendants of Hagar

“Iain seen my mama since I was sold, she walkin round waitin on me.  I’m tied Linny.  This body tied, it hurt.”
― Nik Nicholson, Descendants of Hagar

“So I don’t expect you to understand how the blacker you are, the harder your life is,”
― Nik Nicholson, Descendants of Hagar

“Then she explained how people always call crazy what they don’t understand, and wild what they cain’t control.”
― Nik Nicholson, Descendants of Hagar

“Don’t chu neva do nothing you ‘on wont.”
― Nik Nicholson, Descendants of Hagar