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OMAR TYREE DOES IT AGAIN! The Philadelphia-born author, who jumpstarted the urban fiction craze more than a dozen years ago with Flyy Girl , presents the riveting new tale of Shareef Crawford, a celebrated writer of romantic fiction, who leaves his sunny mansion in South Florida and returns... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Shareef Crawford: Add a description of this character.
- Spoonie
- Jurrell Garland
- Cynthia
- Jennifer
- Jacqueline
- Kimberly
- Daryl
- Bill
- Charles
- Dr. Nelling
- Shareef Jr.
- Michael
- Grandma
- Meesha
- Wilma Pickett
- Damn
- Greggory Taylor
- Heather Cooke
- Adam Clayton Powell
- Polo
- Barbara
- Frederick Douglass
Quotes edit
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“I mean…Oprah just don’t deal with that many black books, or with black men in general.””
Shareef -
“Then again, becoming a revolving door of sexual fantasies, a human McDonald’s, where every customer was served, and cheaply, was not an option she would allow herself to entertain.”
Shareef -
“So he grabbed her hands in his,aware that she was coming, and he allowed himself to settle into her spot until she had released the glory, torture, and toil of heaven, hell, and earth.”
Shareef -
“The young, searching girl in Cynthia loved the deep soul of a man. She craved to learn more about life from her men. And a man inside prison walls had been hardened by the truth.”
Cynthia -
“Intelligent men of the free world had souls, too.”
Cynthia -
““Yo, Shareef, seriously…do you think Hugh Hefner cares about playing football and slap boxing?”
Jurell -
““You are safe, player. Just relax like you got a pen in your hand.””
Baby G -
““Women…when they love you they don’t know how to act. And when they hate you they don’t know how to act.””
Baby G -
“The subject of gender psychology would always be a hit with men. The need to feed with sex was a constant hunger of masculinity.”
Shareef -
“But his energies meant nothing to her without his loyalty. A man’s loyalty to his woman was pivotal, but what about her loyalty to him as his wife? What did that loyalty mean? And how did loyal people act to one another?”
Shareef -
““I was thinking that you would treat your wife with respect and honor, that you would cherish your wife and stay committed to her. I had no idea that I owed you anything for loving me.”
Jennifer -
““You’re not stuck here. Harlem’s not a prison, it’s a community.”
Shareef -
““This is real life, man. Learn to follow shit that keeps your mind alive. ’Cause this other shit is just poison.””
Shareef -
“A grown man needed correcting just as much as a young man when he was wrong, and Shareef was in no position to argue.”
Charles
First Sentence edit
THE SMOKE FROM THE CIGARETTE rose to the unblemished young face of a Harlem street general.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Omar Tyree (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Country: USA
Publication Date: July 3, 2007
ISBN: 1416541845
Page Count: 416
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Country: USA
Publication Date: July 3, 2007
ISBN: 1416541845
Page Count: 416
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 813.54
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