DQOTD #28

When looking at a picture of someone with vitiligo, Darlene says,

“I think I almost had vitiligo.”

DQOTD #23

When I complain that people aren’t liking or commenting on the blog posts I share on Facebook, Darlene says,

“You want to get more likes and comments on your Facebook post? Stop writing about work and write about your business. You got to put your personal business out there. That’s…

DQOTD #26

On describing what is was like in Park Avenue Missionary Baptist Church, Darlene says,

“Growing up, we had old, old folks with amazing voices and they never lost it. They’d have that same amazing voice the day before they died.”

DQOTD #30

When a staff member wants to do something nice before the end of year for teachers who got noticed, Darlene says,

“I don’t want no cake for getting laid off.”

DQOTD #21

When a friend visits our new house, after we’ve lived there only a few weeks, and comments that it appears we’ve settled in well, that it looks like we’ve been there longer than a few short weeks, Darlene says,

“We good at this.”

DQOTD #32

When someone gives bad relationship advice, like one of her continuation school students, let’s say, Darlene says,

“Ok, now you’re Dr. So and So?”

DQOTD #25

• Special thanks to friend Betina, who sent me our first “guest” Darlene Quote of the Day.

When her friend is talking too loudly over drinks in a mostly white establishment about the effects of the dominant culture in America, Darlene says,

DQOTD #34

A dialogue about my bad habit of playing with my phone when I’m behind the wheel.

Darlene: You’re getting worse.

Me: No, I’m not.

Darlene: You are.

DQOTD #24

When one of her friends is trying to justify something they did, by saying “God said this,” Darlene says,

“No, you know God did not tell you that.”

DQOTD #22

When people are engaging, sometimes hilariously, sometimes troublingly misguided or borderline inappropriately, on a Facebook post she wrote, Darlene says,

“I have to write a comment back. I owe it to the people.”