Night women
"The night is the time I dread most in my life. Yet if I am to live, I must depend on it.
*You can tell she is not happy about being a night woman but knows that her life and her sons life depends on it, sacrificing her own self for a better future for her son.*
"For a brief second, I almost mistake him for the ghost of his father, an old lover who disappeared with the night’s shadows a long time ago."
*Its possible her husband died and she sees him in her sons shadows*
"Perhaps it is a mosquito that has learned the gift of lighting itself."
*I honestly do not know why I chose this, but it just seems interesting how she thought a mosquito could turn to a lighting bug*
"Love is one of those lessons that you grow to learn, the way one learns that one shoe is made to fit a certain foot, lest it cause discomfort."
*i thought this was interesting how she compared love to a solid object like a shoe not fitting.*
"There are two kinds of women: day women and night women. I am stuck between the day and night in a golden amber bronze."
*Clearly distinguishing the two types of women, the ones who work during the day and those who work at night.*
"There is a place in Ville Rose where ghost women ride the crests of waves while brushing the stars out of their hair."
*Again, not sure why I chose this, but it sounded interesting. Cause first it was night woman, day woman, and now ghost woman.*
"We are like faraway lovers, lying to one another, under different moons."
*You can tell her relationship with her son is very interesting. Cares about him very much.*
"I want him to forget that we live in a place where nothing lasts."
*Cares about how her son views their life, and wants what is best for him.*
"Emmanuel will come tonight. He is a doctor who likes big buttocks on women, but my small ones will do."
*shows the difference between male and female roles. And how men view women*
Seeing things simply
"“Let me be or I’ll make you hush,” he shouted at her. He dug his foot deep into the brown dusty grass to put a spell on her that would make her mute."
*The role between men and women here, so upsetting*
"“What a pretty girl you are.” The old man winked as Princesse approached him."
*After yelling at his wife, he started talking to princess. I think he likes younger girls. Gross man.*
"She might do it the next day when the light would have changed slightly, when the sun was just a little higher or lower in the sky, turning the sea a different shade."
*Interesting how the artist paints her pictures*
"“Perhaps the smaller things—like human beings, for example—can also change and affect the bigger things in the universe.”
*I loved this quote. Made me think about how humans impact our society*
“I used to live with a man who was already an artist. That man was my best teacher. He died yesterday.”
*Her mentor does, and that is very sad. She is not super phased by it though*
"but whenever he went on a trip, I would make myself live in those shoes. I wore them every day, everywhere I went. I would wear them on the street, in the park, to the butcher’s. I wore them everywhere I could until they felt like mine for a while.”
*She pretended to not want to fill his shoes, but did it anyways because she wanted to feel like they are apart of her*
"It struck Princesse that this is why she wanted to make pictures, to have something to leave behind even after she was gone, something that showed what she had observed in a way that no one else had and no one else would after her."
*This makes me smile. Finding the deeper meaning of a person or a situation*
New York Day Women
"My mother never shops outside of Brooklyn. She has never seen the advertising office where I work. She is afraid to take the subway, where you may meet those young black militant street preachers who curse black women for straightening their hair."
*Describing how odd it is that her mother is out of town because her mother is one who does not go out of town at all.*
"My mother, who accuses me of random offenses as I dash out of the house."
*Her Mother always shames her for going out of town, and now she sees her mom out of town*
"Oh no, he doesn’t kiss me that way anymore."
*Talking about how her husband and hers affection ran out a while ago.*
"she is lost in a sea of pinstripes and gray suits, high heels and elegant short skirts, Reebok sneakers, dashing from building to building."
*I sis not fully understand this, but it seems like her mother is surrounded by a bunch of working people.*
"Ville Rose and has never had the strength to return for their funerals."
*How her mothers sisters all died. And she never had the strength to go to their funerals*
" They look like a Third World Parent-Teacher Association meeting."
*I just thought this was sooooo funny!!*
"Day women come out when nobody expects them."
*Makes her mom sound very mysterious.*
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