Quotes from Beverly Jenkins

the Fifteenth Amendment

Livy says when her mama and papa are happy she hears them jumping on the bed at night. Are you going to jump on the bed?

Beauty can blind you." "But it shouldn't make you stupid.

Two years ago, the Supreme Court handed down an 8–1 decision that found the 1875 Civil Rights unconstitutional.

Why do you want to marry me?" "Because I want this adventure we're on to continue. Because you fill my heart. Because I want you to have that garden.

while still another promised to find out if it was true that she ate raw skinned squirrels for breakfast and slept outside in a tepee.

Because the world needs sons and daughters with the courage of their fathers, and you are a courageous man.

She didn't believe that anyone should be made to spend the entire time on earth as property of someone else. No matter what it took, she was determined to see them free before she went to her grave.

Whatever I can do to make you happy makes me happy as well.

They forgot about us women!" When laughter broke out, she countered, "Do I look like I'm joking?

Never is a strong word, Domino. Life often has a way of negating nevers.

How do I keep my drawers from bunching up?

I'd say it was more like The Real Senior Citizens of Henry Adams.

The catsuit would hug her frame like steam on glass.

The March. It's from Mr. Lawrence's Toussaint L'Ouverture series. Painted in 1995.

Suppose she was unable to have children. Would you be so at sixes and sevens over that?

You may want to. Ask yourself, do you want Spring because you love her or because of her potential to breed?

Before she could put Paula in her place, a beautifully attired older woman standing near her said pointedly, "Miss July, please don't judge we Philadelphians by this graceless visitor from Memphis.

Heather didn't understand why Riley kept putting the animal in clothes, either. The practice only made him look crazier, but then again, she'd never been a big proponent of anthropomorphism. To her, animals were just that, nothing more, but nothing less, either.

The diner's candy-apple-red jukebox, recently named Gina after songstress Regina Belle,

Katherine thought that no man had the right to be so devastatingly handsome, especially a man she was determined not to like. Feeling herself getting dizzy from just looking at him, she sensed that if she wasn't careful, she could lose her wits around him most any time.

Since he preferred to sleep naked as Poseidon,

Passion could lead to a place you'll regret.

These are serious times." "Yes, they are, which is why it's important to seek out humor and beauty whenever possible. If we don't, we'll all be buried beneath the weight of the misery.