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1 " What good's a black face if it means I'm just someone else's property? Why give me these arms and legs just to carry someone else's load, not my own? "
― Stacey Lee , Under a Painted Sky
2 " Some parents bring their children up and, I suppose, others let them down. "
― Stacey Lee , Outrun the Moon
3 " I mean, sometimes I wonder why God would grant a favor if trouble's just waiting around the corner? It feels disingenuous. If it's fate, then it's written in the stars, and we can't do much to avoid it. "
4 " Somewhere between right and wrong lies a garden surrounded by thorns, and I have met you there. "
― Stacey Lee , The Secret of a Heart Note
5 " When a law isn't just, I believe it's okay to disobey it. In fact, I believe we are morally obliged to disobey it. "
6 " You ever think about the noose?''I been thinking about the noose since I was born. "
7 " Fly you crows. My father was not a spectacle. He was the greatest man I ever knew. He was my everything. "
8 " Breathing is underrated. "
9 " A part of me understands the need to keep order, but another part worries that we are being led to fear the wrong things. It's just like Chinatown and all the laws passed to contain us. We were never the enemy. The enemy was our country's own fear. "
10 " Most people don't know that heartache smells like blueberries. "
11 " Folks care less about which door Chinese people use nowadays, compared with when the laborers were shipped in to replace the field slaves after the war. Perhaps whites feel the same way about us as they do about ladybugs: A few are fine, but a swarm turns the stomach "
― Stacey Lee , The Downstairs Girl
12 " The two words that will change your life are "thank you". Like a candle that can light a thousand more without shortening its own life, appreciation is a gift that, when given, can set the whole world aglow. "
13 " I've never thought too hard about my convictions and wonder if it's too late now. "
14 " We have the same dirt under our shoes as they do. "
15 " The tricky thing about giving opinions is that sometimes they cost you more than you wanted to spend "
16 " Living people are a dying breed. "
17 " I have been blacklisted. Servants are routinely blacklisted when their services come to an end, even when they have done nothing to deserve it, except working their fingers to the breaking point each day, coming in early, leaving late, cleaning up other people's messes, "
18 " As for Headmistress Crouch, I pegged her as the type who wouldn't have a mate, either because of her exacting standards, or because she ate him for dinner. "
19 " I may have no notion of what's in the beans for me now, with everything upside down and sideways. But one thing I know is that I belong in this moment. "
20 " They don't want to be men, only to be allowed to have a say. God wouldn't have given us feet if He didn't want us to walk. By the same token, why give us a brain if He didn't want us to have thoughts? "
