Better Than You: Girl, by Jamaica Kincaid

hellomyoldcountryhello:

Wash the white clothes on Monday and put them on the stone heap; wash the color clothes on Tuesday and put them on the clothesline to dry; don’t walk barehead in the hot sun; cook pumpkin fritters in very hot sweet oil; soak your little cloths right after you take…

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    ___ The bold are the voices of my ancestors, my relatives up there in that slip of prose. So homesick now. So homesick.
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