Important Quotations Explained
1. I wonder
if the person he wants to marry is me or a black girl?
2. Was this
really a funny story she could tell later or was there real danger?
But there was more. She felt a curious embarrassment in the picture
of herself telling on a black man to a white man and then watching
those red-necked gendarmes zoom him away in a boat.
3. “Call
the harbor!” shouted Valerian, but again there was no one to do
his bidding. He had played a silly game, and everyone was out of
place.
4. “You know
how a star is supposed to twinkle? We say twinkle because that is
how it looks, but when a star feels itself, it's not a twinkle,
it's more like a throb. Star throbs. Over and over and over. Like
this. Stars just throb and throb and throb and sometimes, when they
can't throb anymore, when they can't hold it anymore, they fall
out of the sky.”
5. Each knew
the world as it was meant or ought to be. One had a past, the other
a future and each one bore the culture to save the race in hands.
Mama-spoiled black man, will you mature with me? Culture-bearing
black woman, whose culture are you bearing?
