It's funny, he said, have you ever thought that a girl's clothes cost more than the girl inside them?

When he talked his eyes went away from mine and then he forced himself to look straight at me and he began to explain and I knew that he felt very strange with me and that he hated me, and it was funny sitting there and talking like that, knowing he hated me.

Now at last I know why I was brought here and what I have to do.

They say when trouble comes close ranks, and so the white people did.

very few people change after well say seven or seventeen. Not really. They get more this or more that and of course look a bit different. But inside they are the same.

The musty smell, the bugs, the lonliness, this room, which is part of the street outside-this is all I want from life.

I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness.