Candice Carty-Williams

Raikas ja rohkea romaani kaikille, jotka ovat etsineet rakkautta ja löytäneet jotain ihan muuta.

Queenie

Temi Awani

 l can't carry on with the only consistent thing in my life being your problems. 

Me personally. I can’t entertain such insult. Huhhhh?!

‘You're so closed off that actual love is out of your reach. so you settle for sex. With anyone who’ll fuck you. Your self-esteem is a joke.' She placed the edge of the tape on the cardboard and extended it, sealing the box. ‘With a mum like yours, it's no surprise.

Ausrine Blazyte

Food Is Love is my family's unofficial motto. Pity that the motto is also Have You Put on Weight?

"Well, Queenie, I think that you're taking on a burden that isn't yours. You can't carry the pain of a whole race.”

 "It’s not a burden I'm taking on, it's one that's just here." I could feel anger building in my chest. "I can't pick it up and drop it!" 

"Is that how you see it?" Janet asked as calmly as she could in an attempt to counter my distress. 

“That's how it is." I started to get louder. "I can't wake up and not be a black woman, Janet. I can't walk into a room and not be a black woman, Janet. On the bus, on the Tube, at work, in the cafeteria. Loud, brash, sassy, angry, mouthy, confrontational, bitchy." I listed off all of my usual descriptors on my fingers."There are ones people think are nice, though: well-spoken, surprisingly intelligent, exotic. My favorite is sexy, I think? I guess I should be grateful for any attention at all."

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