“It was the day my grandmother exploded.”
“My life might have been so different, had I not been known as the girl whose grandmother exploded.”
“One day, I shall explode like an artillery shell and all my bits will be found on the writing table.”
“My grandmother is a little Cuban woman who cooks all day and speaks Spanish. Your grandmother watches pay-per-view porn.""She used to watch the Weather Channel, but she said there wasn't enough action."-Ranger and Stephanie”
“What did it mean for a black woman to be an artist in our grandmothers' time? In our great-grandmothers' day? It is an answer cruel enough to stop the blood.”
“My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the heck she is.”