1.the author uses this term, "Spreading Jelly on the truth" because it refers that someone was sugar coating the truth, basically making the truth sound nice and less harsh.
2.the author uses this term, "Gone floating after some man like a balloon on a string" because it is explaining that someone is chasing a man or attached to a man just like a string is attached to a balloon. The author could also mean that they were emotionally attached to the man.
A girl in the luch line at school said to a black girl (aka me) move your just like rosa parks you should be standing in the back of the line because that is where you belong