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Penelope Dalton
In My Pafology, Clareece Jenkins (“Mama”) is Van Go’s mother. A single mother, she struggles to provide her children with a good life despite their poverty. She worries that her son is headed down the wrong path and worries about his future. Mama and Baby Girl sit in the audience during Go’s appearance on the Snookie Cane Show. As Snookie Cane and the audience berate Go, Mama breaks down, crying that she raised Go to be better than this.
Clareece Jenkins (Go’s Mother / Mama) Quotes in Erasure
The Erasure quotes below are all either spoken by Clareece Jenkins (Go’s Mother / Mama) or refer to Clareece Jenkins (Go’s Mother / Mama). 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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My Pafology: Won
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I look at my hands and they all covered wif blood and I realize I don’t know what goin on. So, I stab Mama again. I stab her cause I scared. I stab Mama cause I love her. I stab Mama cause I hate her. Cause I love her. Cause I hate her. Cause I ain’t got no daddy. Then I walk out the kitchen and stand outside, leavin Mama crawlin round on the linolum tryin to hold in her guts. I stands out on the sidewalk just drippin blood like a muthafucka. I look up at the sky and I try to see Jesus, but I cain’t.
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My Pafology: Ate
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I can feel the rage swell up inside me. I hates this man. I hates my mama. I hates myself. I’m seein my face in his. I see the ape that stupid girls say they be fraid of. [...] I see Mama bleedin in my dream. I see my babies. I see Rexall, wifout a brain, growin up and axing “Why not me?” I see my daddy. I see myself. I shoot the muthafucka. Pop! In the gut.
Willy double over and he look at me like to say, “Why?” I yell at him. I be standin over him yellin at the back of his head. “Cause you aint shit!” I say. “Cause you made me, muthafucka! Cause I aint shit!” I be cryin now and I think I hear sumpin out at the street. I run again.
My Pafology: Tin
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I looks up and see the cameras. I get kicked again while I’m bein pulled to my feet. But I dont care. The cameras is pointin at me. I be on the TV. The cameras be full of me. I on TV. I say, “Hey, Mama.” I say, “Hey, Baby Girl. Look at me. I on TV.”
Chapter 18
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I chose one of the TV cameras and stared into it. I said, “Egads, I’m on television.”
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Clareece Jenkins (Go’s Mother / Mama) Quotes in Erasure
The Erasure quotes below are all either spoken by Clareece Jenkins (Go’s Mother / Mama) or refer to Clareece Jenkins (Go’s Mother / Mama). 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:
).
My Pafology: Won
Quotes
I look at my hands and they all covered wif blood and I realize I don’t know what goin on. So, I stab Mama again. I stab her cause I scared. I stab Mama cause I love her. I stab Mama cause I hate her. Cause I love her. Cause I hate her. Cause I ain’t got no daddy. Then I walk out the kitchen and stand outside, leavin Mama crawlin round on the linolum tryin to hold in her guts. I stands out on the sidewalk just drippin blood like a muthafucka. I look up at the sky and I try to see Jesus, but I cain’t.
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My Pafology: Ate
Quotes
I can feel the rage swell up inside me. I hates this man. I hates my mama. I hates myself. I’m seein my face in his. I see the ape that stupid girls say they be fraid of. [...] I see Mama bleedin in my dream. I see my babies. I see Rexall, wifout a brain, growin up and axing “Why not me?” I see my daddy. I see myself. I shoot the muthafucka. Pop! In the gut.
Willy double over and he look at me like to say, “Why?” I yell at him. I be standin over him yellin at the back of his head. “Cause you aint shit!” I say. “Cause you made me, muthafucka! Cause I aint shit!” I be cryin now and I think I hear sumpin out at the street. I run again.
My Pafology: Tin
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I looks up and see the cameras. I get kicked again while I’m bein pulled to my feet. But I dont care. The cameras is pointin at me. I be on the TV. The cameras be full of me. I on TV. I say, “Hey, Mama.” I say, “Hey, Baby Girl. Look at me. I on TV.”
Chapter 18
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I chose one of the TV cameras and stared into it. I said, “Egads, I’m on television.”
