Rita Williams-Garcia Quotes

#1. Mixing comes natural. i just ought to. not am i mixed to perfection, i have aptitude for art and colors.

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#2. Saying "please" without saying it to someone you don't want to say "please" to in the first place tops the list of hard.

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#3. If you knew what I knew, seen what I've seen, you wouldn't be so quick to pull the plow.

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#4. It was a strange, wonderful feeling. To discover eyes upon you when you expected no one to notice you at all.

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#5. I pressed and I prayed. It was only right that pressing went with prayer. That and being sorry. Every wrinkle was a patch of sorry to be smoothed and flattened.

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#6. That was how I knew Sister Mukumbo was a real teacher, aside from her welcoming smile and her blackboard penmanship. She asked a teacher's type of question. The kind that says: Join in.

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#7. We all have our la-la-la song. The thing we do when the world isn't singing a nice tune to us. We sing our own nice tune to drown out ugly.

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#8. Heckle and Jeckle again

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#9. I had a lot of those memories clicking before me like projector slides in the dark. Lots of pictures, smells and sounds flashing in and out.

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#10. Today we're going to be like the earth, spinning around and affecting many.

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#11. I just took the box and nodded, because that's how you treat crazy people. You nod and count down twenty-seven days for crazy to come to an end.

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#12. Cecile made it sound like it was no big deal. "I've been fighting for freedom all my life." But she wasn't talking about protest signs, standing up to the Man, and knowing your rights. She was talking about her life. Just her. Not the people.

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#13. The last thing Pa and Big Ma wanted to hear was how we made a grand Negro spectacle of ourselves thirty thousand feet up in the air around all these white people.

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#14. We're trying to break yokes. You're trying to make one for yourself.

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