19 Quotes by Bernice L. McFadden

The next day the stock market crashed. Hemmingway didn’t quite understand what it all meant, but from the way the white people in town were running around like chickens without heads, she took it as an omen.

Don’t you know sugar is brown first? White folks couldn’t stand the fact that something so sweet shared the same color as the people who cut the cane, slopped the hogs and picked the cotton. So they bleached it to resemble them, and now they done gone and fooled everybody. You included.

Listen, if you choose to believe nothing else that transpires here, believe this: your body does not have a soul; your soul has a body, and souls never, ever die.

I write to breathe life back into memory.

Anger eats up years faster than happiness, chile. You better get on with your living and forget ’bout that hurt.

Scars are proof of survival, they shouldn’t be hidden – it’s a story someone may need to see in order to believe that beyond their pain and suffering, there is healing.

The men know that black women are women at the very least; magical at their zenith and biblical at the core, being with a black woman was as sacred as dousing oneself in holy water. That.

Anger eats up years faster than happiness, chile.

You can’t expect a child not to become a product of his environment. If you’re a drinker, you’ll raise a drunk. If you’re a single mother, traipsing men in and out of your bedroom in front of your girl child – mark my words, in time she’ll claim a corner and charge money for what you gave away for free. Kings and queens raise princes and princesses. That’s just the way it is.