Building+Bridges+-+Character-+Mama+Lil

= Building Bridges =


 * Mama Lil's Character **


 * //said to Mama Lil by her friends, “ain’t no black woman doing no engineering” //


 * //“get that backward idea out of your head” //


 * //“ain’t never heard of no girls to be doing that” //


 * //“how you ever gonna land a decent man” //


 * //“chunky arms…navel on parade” //


 * //“stooping to do a bunch of low down mess-work” //


 * //“if God had meant you to do a man’s work, he would have made you a man” //


 * //“if you put your mind to it, you could be awfully good at doing hair” //


 * //“I don’t have many of my own dreams to go after…what little bit of dreaming I got left in me I am putting on you” //


 * //"I do know I ain’t supposed to sign something I ain’t fully read.” //