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“I never understood why other people thought my color, any color, needed fixing.”
― The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
― The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
“What I wanted most was to be okay as a Blue. I never understood why other people thought my color, any color, needed fixing.”
― The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
― The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
“Lots of cures are worse than what they aim to cure. Are you stuck with it, or can you toss it?”
― The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
― The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
“Those that can’t see past a folk’s skin color have a hard difference in them. There’s a fire in that difference. And when they see you, they’ll still see a Blue. No city drug’s gonna change small minds, what they think about peculiarity. For them like-minded folks, there is no redemption for our kind. Stay put where you belong, Cussy.”
― The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
― The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
“[Y]et, I wondered why Marshall did not at least attempt a kiss. In many ways, his treatment of me reminded me of the way I had behaved toward the doll that Mamma Mae had given me as a child. I favored it so that I had refused myself of the joy of playing with it, daring to love it only with my eyes. But in doing so, I had denied myself its very purpose.”
― The Kitchen House
― The Kitchen House
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Jana’s 2025 Year in Books
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