Haley Newlin’s Reviews > I'll Watch Your Baby > Status Update

“In other countries, especially white people lands, the government paid for childcare, even covered the nanny. They recognized that a woman couldn’t get a lick of work done otherwise, and I think that’s why America doesn’t pay. It’s punishment for white women leaving the dollhouse. For everyone else leaving the fields.”

“I’ve been to jail as a whore, a bitch, and a witchy lunatic, but this was my first time going as a queen.”

“I am not a cheat because I am owed…If law enforcement had its way, I’d still be in the fields. So yeah. Fuck that.

White people took Lottie’s racial ambiguity as a “personal affront”

“Powerful white men like to conduct interviews from their big ole chairs and say how children are precious. But if they meant it, they’d be happy to pay when a mother is wounded after birth. They would leap at the chance to ensure children lived in nice homes with running water and electricity…they would prosecute all those mobs who threw bottles when brown students walked into school.”

Lottie Turner carved out her “own deliverance, not waiting for a welcome that would never come.”