Tar Baby Quotes

There he saw the stars and exchanged stares with the moon, but he could see very little of the land, which was just as well because he was gazing at the shore of an island that, three hundred years...

Valerian put his palms down on either side of his plate. "He [Michael] doesn't care all that much for us, Margaret." (1.238)

"Lazy. Really Lazy. I never thought I'd hear a black man admit it." (5.282)

The woman had made her feel lonely in a way. Lonely and inauthentic. (2.9)

When laborers imported from Haiti came to clear the land, clouds and fish were convinced that the world was over, that the sea-green green of the sea and the sky-blue sky of the sky were no longer...

She fell asleep immediately when first she lay down, but after an hour she woke rigid and frightened from a dream of large hats. (2.1)

[Michael's intentions] were not good. He wanted a race of exotics skipping around being picturesque for him. What were those welfare mothers supposed to put in those pots? (3.131)

That was why she was ashamed. He was the one who smelled […] Treating her like another animal and both of them must have looked just like it in that room. One dog sniffing at the hindquarters of...