Top 3 Jennifer Givhan Quotes
#1. The balding headstones
of the others - quarantined
from their own mothers & sisters & daughters -
I wondered if they, like us, were strange
alloys of sadness & forgetting
the words to the songs.
Jennifer Givhan
#2. What I'm asking is will watching The Discovery
Channel with my young black boy instead
of the news coverage of the riot funerals riot arrests
riot nothing changes riots be enough to keep him
from harm?
Jennifer Givhan
#3. My god
is frozen-mouth. She is get-out-of-this-town-
or-hell-freezes-over. She is paycheck
to paycheck. Each night when she goes to bed, my god
kisses her kids' clean faces, then, thanking herself, her own.
Jennifer Givhan
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