3 Quotes by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton

He's a black man in this world," Major has scolded me. "You got him used to sweetness when life gon' be tart.

Ain’t no use in hate,” Josephine’s mother advises. “Whatever you trying to get away from, hate just binds you to it.

I'm so proud of you," she said, and she supposed she was, or she would have been if her sister hadn't come over and transplanted her mind into Jackie's, if Jackie had time to just sit with the news and process it according to her own values and dreams.