Ma Mae To Philip Quotes

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“Come git all your cajun spices out of my kitchen. I told ya I don't like Cajun, I like creole. Those spices burn my intestins.' Tearin me up with your bird injectors and foul fish. I don't need your kindness. not when you're cheatin on my daughter.”
Toni Orrill

“Now where are those babies? Cause you ain't messin' with them. You already messed up with their mama. Them kids comin' to Ma Mae's house. They can swim and abscound from the mess you made with their mother. They can eat and sleep without wonderin' why their mama's cryin in the next room. If Mr. So an So were here, you'd be dead like that varmit your mistress's wearin around her neck as she walks to the beauty parlor. But Papa ain't here no more, so I guess I gotta be momma and daddy, grandma and grandpa cause no one ain't home to care for creation.”
Toni Orrill

“My daughter needs fidelity, not juvenility, Ma Mae said, flippin her head like a backlash.
Sissy: Mama, that's not w rod.
Poppy: Actually, that is a word. Now I know I have a gene pool of vocabulary. I just thought it had been a fluke. She actually knows words. "Mama why don't you speak like that all the time. That was smart.
I just save it for letters and legal papers. No need to waste my brain. It comes out too when I'm mad.
Philip just stood there watching the women go back and forth and knew the apples were with the tree.”
Toni Orrill