Quotations (25)

Precious

Based on the Novel Push
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“Everi mornin i write a poem before I go to school marY Had a little lamb but I got a kid an HIV that follow me to school one day.” ~”everi mornin” by Precious j.
“How Mama and Daddy know me sixteen years and hate me, how a stranger meet me and love me.”~Precious
“Being a good mother might mean letting your baby be raised by someone who is better able than you to meet the child’s needs.”~Ms. Rain
“Don’t nobody want me. Don’t nobody need me. I know who I am. I know who they say I am-vampire sucking the system’s blood. Ugly black grease to be wipe away, punish, kilt, changed, finded a job for.”~Precious
“Men did not make me this way. Nothing happened to make me this way. I was born butch!”~Jermaine Hicks
“You can’t get away with everything all the time with everybody.”~ Rhonda Patrice Johnson
“You going to be a doctor! my mother tell him. What you think I’m working for. for you to be a damn taxi driver! the question I ask myself is, what am I working for.”~Rhonda Patrice Johnson
Mee2
My clit swell up I think daddy. ...pump my pussy in out in out in out awww I come. ...[my daddy] start sucking my tittie.
Mee2
...am choking between [mom’s] legs A HUH HUH. She is smelling big woman smell. She say suck it, lick me... her hand like a mountain pushing my head down.
Mee2
Crackers is the cause of everything bad. It why my father act like he do... So [my father] fuck me, fuck me, beat me...
Mee2
Nigger, how you gonna marry me when you is my daddy... fucking me is illegal. But she kept her mouth shut so’s the fuckin’ don’t turn into a beating. It start to feel good... [she] start coming...
Mee2
...felt her mother’s hand between her thighs... felt her mother’s... fingers... knew by the smell in the room her mother’s hand was between her own legs...
Mee2
...knowing a man can put his dick in you , gush white stuff in your booty you could get pregnant. I’m 12 now, I been knowing about that since I was 5 or 6... always known about pussy and dick.”
tt14
I...... the pages look alike to me.” Ms. Rain says, “I think I understand you, Precious. But for now, I want you to try, push yourself Precious, go for it” (Sapphire 54).
tt14
I was raped by father, And beat...Mama push me down in her...”
SAPPHIREBEAR15
Clareece 'Precious' Jones: Please don't lie to me, Ms. Rain! Love ain't done nothing for me... but beat me... rape me... call me an animal! Make me feel worthless! Make me sick!
SAPPHIREBEAR15
Ms. Rain: People do love you, Precious.
SAPPHIREBEAR15
Clareece 'Precious' Jones: [Crying hysterically] Nobody loves me!
SAPPHIREBEAR15
"I know who they say I am — vampire sucking the system's blood. Ugly black grease...
SAPPHIREBEAR15
"The tesses paint a picture of me an' my muver — my whole family, we more than dumb, we invisible." Chap. 1, p. 30
SAPPHIREBEAR15
"I hate crack addicts. They give the race a bad name." Chap 1, p. 14
SAPPHIREBEAR15
"A lot of black people with nurse cap or big car or light skin same as me but don't know it." Chap. 1, p. 11
SAPPHIREBEAR15
"It's something about being a nigger ain't color." Chap. 1, p. 11
SAPPHIREBEAR15
"I'm gonna break through or somebody gonna break through to me - I'm gonna learn, catch up, be normal, change my seat to the front of the class." Chap. 1, p. 7
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"Sure you can do anything when you talking or writing, it's not like living when you can only do what you doing." Chap. 1, p. 3