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“Life’s traumas and sagas and hurts and offenses and accomplishments and jubilees don’t wait their turn. All in the same parade they come marching.”
― Renée Watson, skin & bones: a novel

“Don’t marry the man you can’t live without. Marry the man you can live with.”
― Renée Watson, skin & bones: a novel

“I have often been told I am too much. Too loud, too sassy, too dark, too big. Too Black. And so even in loving you, I find myself overthinking and adjusting. Shape-shifting to be what you need me to be. Or what I think you need. When I first knew I loved you, I was afraid to say it. Didn’t want to come on too strong. Didn’t want to be too much.”
― Renée Watson, skin & bones: a novel

“understand that. Want older boys not to look at her with wanton gazes, want White teachers to hear the tenor of her voice and not mistake it for attitude or sass, want her curiosity to be seen as innocent as it is. Want her purity protected. Want her girlhood preserved.”
― Renée Watson, skin & bones: a novel