Annie

“powerless suckers who believed in the American dream scrambling to the suburbs because they, the big boys, wanted a bigger percentage. He felt it, or thought he felt it, as they stood by the front door. There was a connection: a man whose father was dead and a woman whose father was about to die, a sense of wanting to belong, standing in the warm vestibule, she in her farm-girl dress, with a job that paid taxes and drew no cops, no Joe Pecks, no complicated phone calls from complicated people trying to pick your pocket with one”
― James McBride, Deacon King Kong

“Think of your Tía Clara—her daughter married a man who works in New York, and every month he sends the family money. He never fails. They have a cement floor and a new bathroom.”
― Angie Cruz, Dominicana

“You lucky I ain’t taking a hammer to you, but you’re not worth a life sentence.”
― Bernardine Evaristo, Mr Loverman

“When the land kills of its own volition we acquiesce and say the victim had no right to live”
― Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye