“ If you knew what I knew, seen what I've seen, you wouldn't be so quick to pull the plow. Rita Williams-Garcia
“ I)f you prayed for the miracle you'd sell your most treasured possession for, you don't care about anything else but waiting on that miracle. Rita Williams-Garcia
“ There was also one Anthony, whose mama could spell, and one Antnee, whose mama couldn’t. It Rita Williams-Garcia
“ That was how I knew Sister Mukumbu was a real teacher, aside from her welcoming smile and her blackboard penmanship. She asked a teacher’s type of question. The kind that says: Join in. Rita Williams-Garcia
“ I didn’t want to say Big Ma was right. Cecile was no kind of mother. Cecile didn’t want us. Cecile was crazy. I didn’t have to. Rita Williams-Garcia
“ I remember a time when smoke filled the house. Not coughing smoke but smoke from a woman’s smooth-voiced singing, with piano, bass, and drums. All together these sounds made smoke. Uncle Darnell would… Rita Williams-Garcia
“ Dear Delphine, When you are older I want you to find Chinua Achebe. I want you to read Things Fall Apart. Don't be hardheaded and try to read this book now. Don't be hardheaded, Delphine. You are the… Rita Williams-Garcia
“ The last thing Pa and Big Ma wanted to hear was how we made a grand Negro spectacle of ourselves thirty thousand feet up in the air around all these white people. Rita Williams-Garcia
