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crumbs from the table of joy quotes
Racism
"White woman unscathed and the enemy not more than five years back"
"You really thought you could marry a white woman and enter the kingdom of heaven didn't ya?"
" We sit and listen to all the white laughter"
"Only white folks can laugh on sundays"
" You cant put up curtains and pot plants and expect change"
"When I see you I see no color. I see Lily." Gerte
"Don't lecture me about race. You are the last person on earth I'd look to for guidance."
family
"So Ermina fought like a wild animal" Ernestine
"love is candied peach and sugar babies"
"Got something in my pocket for my babies"
" I like being a crump. was just getting used to being a crump" Ermina
Godfrey stiffens up when Lily gives him a hug
" She was a special woman" Lily on Sandra
" (Without looking at the dress) Lace makes it look prissy" Lily is quick to go against anything Gerte states even at the expense of her niece's feelings
grief
"Death nearly crippled my father"
"Death made him wail like a godawful banshee"
Ernestine (prologue)
"Couldn't breathe, couldn't think, couldn't do nothing but go to work" Godfrey
"Make my dime and drink it down on Friday night" Godfrey
"Practically touching shoulders. And we all wept. Wept unabashedly" Ernestine
identity
"Its one of the hazards of being an independent thinker" Lily
"Red scare should be called black scare" Lily
"Its my own little subversive mission to outdress them whenever possible" Lily, A1S1
"wears an impeccably pressed suit. His appearance is always neat and well assembled." Ernestine on Godfrey
religion
"Daddy discovered father divine when he was searching to cure 'ailments of the heart'" Ernestine (Prologue)
"A mind that ain't limited to a few pages in the bible" Lily A1S3
" If you'd pay attention to the world around you you wouldn't have so many questions" Gerte
" I need his answers now need him to help me move on" Godfrey
“he let Divine strip away his desire and demand of him a monk’s devotion"
hopes and dreams
"’Cause it’s liable to end up in one of your essays. You got too much imagination to keep a simple secret." Lily on Ernestine
"We'd gone by to touch it everyday after school for 2 weeks" Ernestine talking about the lace showcases their economic struggle
Ernestine break
"the feeling of floating out of your body, entering the milky way and getting stuck in it just as its curdling"
character specific
Ermina
"(without a breath) scat cat, hip, jive cool baby.." Displays Erminas anxious outbursts/antics, asyndeton
Godfrey
Ernestine
Ernestines breaks the fourth wall throughout the play, this shows how she acknowledges that her life is a play and that she is a character within it
Lily
Gerte
Father Divine
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