...as if i haven't highlighted half the novel already. but for FW's sake, here are some quotable segments, that might assure the 2012 HBO Girl in you - because even Maya Angelou has done and felt and said, these things: (via The Heart of a Woman)
(p.85)
"I made my way through the busy streets of Harlem, dressed in my best and wearing just enough make-up. Along the way, I received approval from lounging men or passers-by.
"Hey, baby. Let me go with you."
"Oowee, sugar. You look good to me."
"Let me be your little dog, til your big dog come."
I smiled and kept walking. The compliments helped to straighten my back and put a little swing to my hips, and I needed the approval."
(p.101)
"What was Tommy going to do with them? And for goodness' sake, she wasn't even pretty, so what did he see in her?
If they had asked me, instead of each other, I could have informed them with two words: sex and food.
At first, my eagerness in the bedroom shocked him, but when he realized that I wasn't a freak, just a healthy woman with a healthy appetite, he was proud to please me. (...) We enjoyed each other's gifts and felt easy together. I had only one regret. We didn't talk. He never introduced a subject into our evenings and answered with monosyllables to my questions asked.
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