Bridgett M. Davis

“To be clear, she always admired hard workers: she just didn't see the point of laboring to benefit someone else. "If you're going to work hard," she used to say, "you might as well work hard for yourself.”
― Bridgett M. Davis, The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother's Life in the Detroit Numbers

“...she had little use for separate but so-called equal. My mother understood from her Southern roots a basic principle that still rings true; where there's a white presence, there will be amenities. She wanted grocery stores with quality produce, and roads that got repaired and streeetlights that came on magically at dusk and garbage that got collectd on time.”
― Bridgett M. Davis, The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother's Life in the Detroit Numbers