[...] Wondering why white people named girl babies things like Hope and Faith and Patience - names they could never live up to - and black mothers called their daughters Mercy, Deliverance, Salvation - crosses they'd always have to bear.

“I didn’t want to invade hisprivacy; I didn’t want to fight with him; I didn’t w…”

“If I tell you another seven hundred times, maybe one of these days you might tu…”

“Las cosas existen mientras haya quien que las recuerde.”

“You would be surprised at the lengths you will go to believe the best about som…”