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Ms. Robinson is Iesha’s mother. She’s a caustic, rude woman who believes that Iesha has to take responsibility for the mistakes she made, so she refuses to help her daughter at all when King Jr. is born. She encourages Iesha to abandon King Jr. with Maverick when they find out that Maverick is the father. Ma detests Ms. Robinson, especially since Ms. Robinson receives welfare benefits that are supposed to support King Jr.—and she makes no effort to transfer those benefits to Maverick after Maverick takes custody of his son.
Ms. Robinson Quotes in Concrete Rose
The Concrete Rose quotes below are all either spoken by Ms. Robinson or refer to Ms. Robinson. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 2
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I study Iesha real hard. She got bags under her eyes she didn’t have before. “Anybody helping you with him?”
“Help?” her momma says, like I cussed. “Who supposed to help her? Me?”
“C’mon now, Yolanda,” says Ma. “This is a lot for anyone to handle, let alone a seventeen-year-old.”
“T’uh! She wanna act grown, she can deal with this like she grown. By. Her. Self.”
Iesha blink real fast.
I’m feeling real bad for her all of a sudden. “If he is mine, you won’t be doing this alone no more, a’ight? I’ll come over and help as much as I can.”
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Chapter 18
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“I felt bad for leaving him and not being able to handle it.”
“That don’t mean you disappear, baby,” Ma says. I’m sorry that your momma didn’t support you like she should’ve and that you had to go through so much yourself. But you have responsibilities now. Seven needs you as much as he needs Maverick.”
“Not if I get in that bad space again, he don’t,” Iesha murmurs.
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Ma rub her shoulder. ‘If it’s not, you’re not alone. It takes a village to raise a child. Seven has a big one. That means that you do too.”
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Ms. Robinson Quotes in Concrete Rose
The Concrete Rose quotes below are all either spoken by Ms. Robinson or refer to Ms. Robinson. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 2
Quotes
I study Iesha real hard. She got bags under her eyes she didn’t have before. “Anybody helping you with him?”
“Help?” her momma says, like I cussed. “Who supposed to help her? Me?”
“C’mon now, Yolanda,” says Ma. “This is a lot for anyone to handle, let alone a seventeen-year-old.”
“T’uh! She wanna act grown, she can deal with this like she grown. By. Her. Self.”
Iesha blink real fast.
I’m feeling real bad for her all of a sudden. “If he is mine, you won’t be doing this alone no more, a’ight? I’ll come over and help as much as I can.”
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Chapter 18
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“I felt bad for leaving him and not being able to handle it.”
“That don’t mean you disappear, baby,” Ma says. I’m sorry that your momma didn’t support you like she should’ve and that you had to go through so much yourself. But you have responsibilities now. Seven needs you as much as he needs Maverick.”
“Not if I get in that bad space again, he don’t,” Iesha murmurs.
[…]
Ma rub her shoulder. ‘If it’s not, you’re not alone. It takes a village to raise a child. Seven has a big one. That means that you do too.”
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