They say it's like true love, good help. You only get one in a lifetime.
I grew up in the 1970s, but I don't think a whole lot had changed from the '60s. Oh, it had changed in the law books - but not in the kitchens of white homes.
If singing was a color, it would've been the color of that chocolate.
I'm sorry, but were you dropped on your head as an infant?
Ugly live up on the inside. Ugly be a hurtful, mean person.
Baby Girl," I say. "I need you remember everything I told you. Do you remember what I told you?" She still crying steady, but the hiccups are gone. "To wipe my bottom good when I'm done?" "No, baby, the other one. About who you are.