She's wearing a tight red sweater and a red skirt and enough makeup to scare a hooker.

You're gon' have to say to your self, am I gon' believe what them fools say about me today?

She dumb.” I sigh. “But she ain’t stupid.

...My sister Doreena who never lifted a royal finger growing up because she had the heart defect that we later found out was a fly on the X-ray machine.

Bosoms are for bedrooms and breastfeeding.

Lord, I never seen blue hair on a black woman before or since. Leroy say you look like a cracker from outer space.

I've become one of those people who prowl around at night in their cars. God, I am the town's Boo Radley, just like in To Kill A Mockingbird.