# Quote — Nalo Hopkinson, Brown Girl In The Ring

> “I can’t keep giving my will into other people hands no more, ain’t? I have to decide what I want to do for myself.” No answer. It wasn’t going to tell her.

- Author: [Nalo Hopkinson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nalo-hopkinson.md)
- Book: [Brown Girl In The Ring](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nalo-hopkinson/brown-girl-in-the-ring.md)
- Page: 220
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nalo_Hopkinson#Brown_Girl_in_the_Ring_(1998)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/nalo-hopkinson/brown-girl-in-the-ring/i-cant-keep

## More from this book

> She had a yearning to lose herself in this noisy throng of people going about the business of staying alive.

p. 230 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nalo-hopkinson/brown-girl-in-the-ring/she-had-a-yearning.md)

> “Mami,” Ti-Jeanne said, “I should go and get Baby. He ain’t take to Tony.”
>
> “Hmph. Child got some sense, then. More than some I could name. But leave he there. He have to learn that he can’t always have what he want.”

p. 62 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nalo-hopkinson/brown-girl-in-the-ring/mami-ti-jeanne-said.md)

> Since Baby’s birth, she had learned that the first few months of motherhood were about fatigue and leakiness.

p. 232 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nalo-hopkinson/brown-girl-in-the-ring/since-babys-birth.md)