Miss Saunders Quotes

“Everybody starts talking at once, asking her questions. Miss Saunders answers ‘em all. Some kids even go up to her face and stare and point. She lets them do it too, like she’s proud of her face or something.”

“Maleeka, your skin is pretty. Like a blue-black sky after it’s rained and rained.”

″‘Liking myself didn’t come overnight,’ she says. ‘I took a lot of wrong turns to find out who I really was. You will, too.‘”