16 Quotes by Kekla Magoon

I wish she would just look at me, look at my face and stop talking long enough to see me. To see that things are not right. That none of this is real and I am in some other place.

I’ve never had a guy who’s interested in the rest of me. One who likes to look into my eyes. To most guys, I’m just a round face, a double-E cup, and a pair of hippo hips.

My moves are smooth. Always have been. I’m smart enough to see what’s coming, and clever enough to turn it my way. All my skills make me perfect for this. The street dance. The hustle.

It seemed like a backward step at first, but now I know going back was the only way to show how far I’ve come.

I glance through the rear window at the house. It amazes me slightly that it looks the same as it did, though it’s been gutted of so many valuable things. You wouldn’t know, to walk past that house, what it had lost. It looks as proud, and as firm, and as fancy as ever. As whole.

My shoes dangle from my fingertips because, all things considered, barefoot is better.

In the white newspapers, they use it against us. They make the Panthers look like we all just want to rip the throats out of some white folks for no good reason. We have good reasons, but we still don’t want to do that.