How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
T. Ray did not think colored women were smart. Since I want to tell the whole truth, which means the worst parts, I thought they could be smart, but not as smart as me, me being white. Lying on the cot in the honey house, though, all I could think was August is so intelligent, so cultured, and I was surprised by this. That's what let me know I had some prejudice buried inside me (4.103).
Here, Lily confirms some of T. Ray's prejudices here and admits some of her own.
Quote #5
This was a great revelation—not that I was white but that it seemed like June might not want me here because of my skin color. I hadn't known this was possible—to reject people for being white (5.38).
Lily has just overheard a conversation between June and August, in which June pushed back against having Lily stay on at the pink house. There are a number of reasons why June might have been nervous about housing a runaway white teenager, but Lily had never really considered them. Here, she seems to interpret it as pure prejudice. Hey, there are two sides to every coin.
Quote #6
. . . I looked around me, and it was like seeing everything through a train's thick window. A blur passed before me. A moving wave of color. I am not one of you, I thought (6.88).
This moment occurs when Lily is about to participate in the ritual of touching the statue of Our Lady of Chains but stops short when June stops playing accompaniment (ostensibly because she disapproves of Lily's participation). In that moment, Lily seems to feel totally alienated and out of place in this community, largely because of June's hostile behavior.