“Doesn't the female always take what she wants and at the same time try to hang on to what she already has?” WomenGreedCollectingTaking Book:The Narrows Source: The Narrows
“The female wasn't complicated, it was the male who was complicated. The female was simple, elemental, direct, primordial.” MenWomenMalesSimplicityFemalesPrimordial Book:The Narrows Source: The Narrows
“Well, of course," Camilo said, and grinned back at JohnRolandJoseph and his long line of bought and paid for ancestors, as friendly and unselfconscious as though all her life she had been looking for men, black men, big black men--plantation bucks (stud) look at his thighs, look at that back, look at his dingle-dangle--as though all her life she had been looking for colored men to whom she was not married, to whom she would never be married because she was already married to a nice young white man, as though all her life she had told uniformed monkeys who pulled elevators in rundown colored hotels, in Harlem, that she couldn't find, had lost, misplaced, a gentleman of color named Williams.” WomenRelationshipsAfrican AmericansBlacksRace RelationsWhitesAffairsBlack MenWhite Women Book:The Narrows Source: The Narrows
“Lutie sat down near the back of the room. It was filled with colored women, sitting in huddled-over positions. They sat quietly, not moving. Their patient silence filled the room, made her uneasy. Why were all of them colored? Was it because the mothers of white children had safe places for them to play in, because the mothers of white children didn't have to work?” WomenRaceRacismSafetyBlack WomenAfrican AmericansBlacks Book:The Street Source: The Street
“I ain't seen you in Junto's before, baby,' said Boots Smith. 'I don't go there very often,' she said. There was something faintly contemptuous about the way he said 'baby.' He made it sound like 'bebe,' and it slipped casually, easily, out of his mouth as though it were his own handy, one-word index of women.” MenWomenRelationshipsPickup LinesWomanizing Book:The Street Source: The Street
