24 Quotes by Angela Flournoy

I don't just sit around hopin for nothing. I do shit. It's the 'hope' part that fucks that line all up. You should change it to somethin like, 'We fight for better things,' or 'We work for better things.' Or 'We plan for better things.' That's what's wrong with this city; it ain't about the mayor. Too many people busy hoping shit will get better to actually figure out a way to make shit better.

You're worried about her forgiving you...but you need to be worrying about why you're acting up in the first place.

Cha-Cha favored short, earnest prayer, and he often wondered what took others so long., It had something to do with excess supplication, he suspected. He never presented a long list of specific requests to God, had always felt uncomfortable with the presumptuousness of "Ask and you shall receive." This might have been a result of pride, or his own middling ambition, but mostly Cha-Cha's prayers were a series of thank-yous and I'm sorrys.

Everybody else cain't be wrong all the time. Sometimes it's gotta be you.

Says you and your family. Sooner or later you’re gonna realize that just cause a Turner thinks a thing is normal doesn’t mean it is. Not at all.

You got a child to feed and a life to get on with.

Here is the truth about self-discovery: it is never without cost.

A woman without no options is waitin for a man to come by an ruin her.

There ain't no haints in Detroit.