"One Crazy Summer" Quotes
Three sisters travel to Oakland, California in the 1960s to meet their estranged mother and end up attending a Black Panther summer camp.
historical fiction | 224 pages | Published in 2010
Quotes
The same way you get to Carnegie Hall. Practice, practice, practice.
You do not know me. You do not know my sister. You do not know a thing about me.
It's hard to love someone when you don't know what's been bothering them.
You can't run from trouble. There ain't no place that far.
I want a lot of things, but I don't need them. Want and need are two different things.
I don't have to go around being proud of being colored. It's a fact. It's like having a nose. It's no better or worse than a nose.
Knowing don't come from learning. It comes from the Good Lord above.
I was born with the right to be righteously angry.
It's the way it is. Not good, not bad. Just the way it is.
A body don't just stop being a parent because a child is grown.
