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“Gotta realize that all you are is all you got.”
― The Skin I'm In
― The Skin I'm In
“To look in the mirror and like what you see, even when it doesn't look like your idea of beauty.”
― The Skin I'm In
― The Skin I'm In
“Don't go getting full of yourself becuase once you do, somebody's going to come and let the wind out of your sails”
― The Skin I'm In
― The Skin I'm In
“To look in the mirror and like what you see even if it's not your idea of beauty”
― The Skin I'm In
― The Skin I'm In
“I'm like superman when I get Charlese's clothes on. I got a new attitude and my teachers sure don't like it none" ~page 4”
― The Skin I'm In
― The Skin I'm In
“I took a lot of wrong turns to find out who I really was. You will, too. (Page 19)”
― The Skin I'm In
― The Skin I'm In
“Remember the acorn. Even when you don't see it growing, it's pushing past the dirt. Reaching for the sun. Growing stronger.”
― The Skin I'm In
― The Skin I'm In
“It takes a long time to accept yourself for who you are. To see the poetry in your walk,” she says, shaking her hips like she’s doing some African dance. Kids bust out laughing. “To look in the mirror and like what you see, even when it doesn’t look like anybody else’s idea of beauty.” For a minute,”
― The Skin I'm In
― The Skin I'm In
“″You gotta love yourself, baby. If you don’t, who will?″”
― The Skin I'm In
― The Skin I'm In
“You have to take a stand when things aren’t right.”
― The Skin I'm In
― The Skin I'm In
“You ain’t no kid. We divorced when you were what, in ninth grade? Seems like you’d be over it by now.”
― The Skin I'm In
― The Skin I'm In
“Everybody is quiet. ″Who read the thirty pages I assigned last night?″ Miss Saunders asks.
Most of the hands go up, including mine, even though I didn’t read none of it.”
― The Skin I'm In
Most of the hands go up, including mine, even though I didn’t read none of it.”
― The Skin I'm In
“What does your face say to the world?”
― The Skin I'm In
― The Skin I'm In
“Maleeka, your skin is pretty. Like a blue-black sky after it's rained and rained.”
― The Skin I'm In
― The Skin I'm In
“They’re all good ones, Mr. Mac. Some of them just need more support than others.”
― The Skin I'm In
― The Skin I'm In
“But you gotta do what you gotta do till you can do better.”
― The Life I'm In
― The Life I'm In
“Your life ain’t much if you don’t believe somebody got your back out here.”
― The Life I'm In
― The Life I'm In
