“Daughters get either their courage or their fear from their mothers.” — Naima Coster Copy Share Image
“Daughters get either their courage or their fear from their mothers.” — Naima Coster Copy Share Image
“Penelope had met white women like her at RISD—women who were certain they were the center of everyone’s world. If someone wanted to steal… — Naima Coster Copy Share Image
“life with him would have made her feeble, plastic; here she had her bones.” — Naima Coster Copy Share Image
“Things happened in the neighborhood, yes, and there were kids she knew who got caught up, but there were others, too, who had taken… — Naima Coster Copy Share Image
“They smoked and drank as if they were already defeated, hardened, and long out of art school.” — Naima Coster Copy Share Image
“Why steep in someone else’s disappointment? Why linger where you aren’t wanted?” — Naima Coster Copy Share Image
