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Quotes from Brown Girl in the Ring — Nalo Hopkinson

born 1960 Jamaica

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She had a yearning to lose herself in this noisy throng of people going about the business of staying alive.

Brown Girl in the Ring (1998)

Since Baby’s birth, she had learned that the first few months of motherhood were about fatigue and leakiness.

Brown Girl in the Ring (1998)

“I can’t keep giving my will into other people hands no more, ain’t? I have to decide what I want to do for myself.” No answer. It wasn’t going to tell her.

Brown Girl in the Ring (1998)

“Mami,” Ti-Jeanne said, “I should go and get Baby. He ain’t take to Tony.”
“Hmph. Child got some sense, then. More than some I could name. But leave he there. He have to learn that he can’t always have what he want.”

Brown Girl in the Ring (1998)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Nalo Hopkinson (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.