GWO QUOTES:

(privilege) YAZZ - “Privilege is about…”

“Privilege is about context and circumstance.” - p. 68

(friendship) SHIRLEY - “Her friendship with Amma is based on…”

“Her friendship with Amma is based on a historic loyalty and comfortable familiarity rather than shared interests and perspectives.”

(identity) NARRATOR - “Penelope wanted to embrace…”

“Penelope wanted to embrace self-acceptance / getting rid of the full-length mirrors in her home was a good start.” - p. 299

(marriage) WINSOME on Clovis - “If it was twenty years later […] …”

“If it was twenty years later […] I'd have left him there and then / if it had been thirty years later, I'd have lived with him before marrying him, you see it occurred to me that I didn't really know this man who wanted me to follow him around like a mindless idiot." - p. 231

SHIRLEY - “Neil Armstrong walks on the moon…”

“Neil Armstrong walks on the moon with the caption: one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind / like her / every step she takes will raise these children up, she will leave no child behind” - p. 220

(identity) AMMA - “Amma spent decades…”

“Amma then spent decades on the fringe, a renegade lobbing hand grenades at the establishment that excluded her”

(friendship/identity) AM/DOM - “Neither…”

“neither was prepared to betray their politics to find jobs”

(unity) ENDING - “This is…”

“This is about being / together.”

(friendship) SHIRLEY ABOUT AMMA - “Amma came out…”

“Amma came out as lesbian […] which was initially quite disgusting.”

(friendship) SHIRLEY’S ATTITUDE TOWARDS AMMA - “Shirley had to…”

“Shirley had to put up with her badge-wearing friend or lose the friendship, she can’t not have Amma in her life.” // “Felt protective of her”

(friendship) AMMA TOWARDS SHIRLEY (AFTERPARTY) - “They’ve hardly…”

“They’ve hardly spoke all evening”

(mother/daughter) YAZZ towards Amma - “Mum’s…”

“Mum’s emotional caretaker” // “Mumsy” (contrast with Penelope)

(circumstance) YAZZ towards Warris - “You’ve…”

“You’ve really suffered” / “I haven’t suffered […] I’m not a victim, don’t ever treat me like a victim, my mother didn’t raise me to be a victim”

(friendship) YAZZ towards Courtney about music - “Everyone’s…”

“Everyone’s at it, right? […] so why are you targeting us in particular?”

AMMA AND DOM UNITED - “Neither was…”

“Neither was prepared to betray their politics to find jobs”

(friendship) AMMA thoughts about Dom - “Amma realized she’d found…”

“Amma realized she’d found a kindred spirit in Dom who would kick arse with her”

AMMA’s attitude towards Nzinga - “Amma wanted Nzinga…”

“Amma wanted Nzinga to prove herself worthy of Dominique’s love”

(distance and friendship) AMMA towards Dom at the afterparty - “Dissolves…”

“Dissolves as if it was never a barrier in the first place”

(Friendship and politics) AMMA reflecting on Shirley - “because friendship…”

“Because friendship was unconditional wasn’t it?”

YAZZ on Nenet - “lazy…”

“Lazy, spoilt, immoral princess”

DOM AND AMMA - “collided…”

“Collided in a hug”

Amma = “which only happened…”

“which only happened when the first female artistic director assumed the helm of the National three years ago”

Yazz - “the entire…”

“the entire human race is in it together”

Shirley - Roll as a teacher

“my job as a teacher is to help those who are disadvantaged”