“We can't think of changing our skin color. Change the world - that's how we gotta think.”
― The Secret Life of Bees
― The Secret Life of Bees
“Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die, we can't remember who we are or why we're here.”
― The Secret Life of Bees
― The Secret Life of Bees
“Up until then I'd thought that white people and colored people getting along was the big aim, but after that I decided everybody being colorless together was a better plan. I thought of that policeman, Eddie Hazelwurst, saying I'd lowered myself to be in this house of colored women, and for the very life of me I couldn't understand how it had turned out this way, how colored women had become the lowest ones on the totem pole. You only had to look at them to see how special they were, like hidden royalty among us. Eddie Hazelwurst. What a shitbucket.”
― The Secret Life of Bees
― The Secret Life of Bees
“Honeybees depend not only on physical contact with the colony, but also require it's social companionship and support. Isolate a honeybee from her sisters and she will soon die.”
― The Secret Life of Bees
― The Secret Life of Bees
“Someone who thinks death is the scariest thing doesn't know a thing about life.”
― The Secret Life of Bees
― The Secret Life of Bees
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