“But my mother was in love and she had known about life for a long time, with her two bastard girls like two earrings; and she knewthat most often one must pull out one’s entrails and fill one’s stomach with straw if one wants to have a little piece of the sun.”
Simone Schwarz-Bart
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“I just wanted to tell youeven in hell the devil has his friends.”
Simone Schwarz-Bart
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“You see, the sadness is that rainbows follow rainbows, and they last no longer than shooting starsif we knew that we would never come out of the gourd, would we have entered it? I say that God’s wrath is on all creatures and, in the end, for him goodness and evil are the samehe kills you.”
Simone Schwarz-Bart
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“The woman who has laughed is the same one who will cry, and that is why you can tell, from the way a woman is when she is happy how she will be in the face of adversity.”
Simone Schwarz-Bart
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“Here, like everywhere else, laughing and singing, dancing and dreaming are not exactly the whole of reality; and for one ray of sun shining on the hut, the rest of the village remains in the dark.”
Simone Schwarz-Bart
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“Be a brave little Negress, a real drum with two sides, let life hit, bang at you, but always keep the underside intact.”
Simone Schwarz-Bart
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“… though we are nothing on this earth, I can tell you one thing: as beautiful as all sounds are, only Negroes are musicians.”
Simone Schwarz-Bart
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“I thought that God put me on the earth without asking if I wanted to be a woman or what color I would prefer to be. I could not help it if he gave me skin so black it was blue, a face not exactly dripping with beauty. But I was content, and maybe if I had to choose right now, in this precise moment, I would choose this bluish skin and this face without dripping beauty.”
Simone Schwarz-Bart
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“Insanity is a contagious disease, so my healing belonged to everyone, and my victory was proof that the Negro has seven spleens and does not just give up like that, at the first sign of trouble.”
Simone Schwarz-Bart
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“And I finally understood what a Negro is: both wind and sail at the same time, drummer and dancer, a first-class fake who forces himself to gather basketsful of the sweetness that falls from the sky in some places, and that sweetness that does not fall on him, he makes it up, and that at least is what he has, if he has nothing else.”
Simone Schwarz-Bart
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