Tag: milk, mothers

I’ll tend to her as no mother ever tended a child, a daughter. Nobody will ever get my milk no more except my own children. I never had to give it to nobody else–and the one time I did it was took from me–they held me down and took it. Milk that belonged to my baby…. I know what it is to be without the milk that belongs to you; to have to fight and holler for it, and to have so little left.