scene six

• "You going on a long journey."
• "They all have to fly the nest sometime."
• "They have sucked me dry."
• "You at peace with yourself, you at home anywhere."
• "It must be some kinda curse that condemn our people to wander the earth like ghosts who can't find rest."
• "I have to be man and woman, shout so them hear me."
• "What they know about a black woman soul?"
• "but me run outta time."
• "Like something sitting on my chest, crush the life outta me."
• a howl of pain [...] talking in tongues
• "For a walk."
• "How can you love yourself when you're always bottom of the pile?"