Anna > Anna's Quotes

“What's the point of having a voice if you're gonna be silent in those moments you shouldn't be?”
― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give

“Be roses that grow in the concrete.”
― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give

“Your voices matter, your dreams matter, your lives matter. Be the roses that grow in the concrete.”
― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give

“Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.”
― Anne Frank

“I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

“Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.”
― Anne Frank

“People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but that doesn't stop you from having your own opinion.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

“Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

“Do we settle for the world as it is, or do we work for the world as it should be?”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming

“Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own.”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming

“Nothing sparkly can stay.”
― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

“Maybe the two different worlds we lived in weren't so different. We saw the same sunset.”
― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

“Let's invite one another in. Maybe then we can begin to fear less, to make fewer wrong assumptions, to let go of the biases and stereotypes that unnecessarily divide us. Maybe we can better embrace the ways we are the same. It's not about being perfect. It's not about where you get yourself in the end. There's power in allowing yourself to be known and heard, in owning your unique story, in using your authentic voice. And there's grace in being willing to know and hear others. This, for me, is how we become.”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming

“Brave doesn't mean you're not scared. It means you go on even though you're scared.”
― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give

“looked me in the eye and, said, ' Sometimes you can do everything right and things will still go wrong. The key is to never stop doing right.”
― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give

“We do this because the world we live in is a house on fire and the people we love are burning.”
― Cisneros Sandra

“You can't change how other people think and act, but you're in full control of you.”
― Nic Stone, Dear Martin

“Those girls are not the opposite of me. We are perpendicular. We may be on different paths, yes. But there’s a place where we touch, where we connect and are just the same.”
― Renée Watson, Piecing Me Together

“But girls like me, with coal skin and hula-hoop hips, whose mommas barely make enough money to keep food in the house, have to take opportunities every chance we get.”
― Renée Watson, Piecing Me Together

“There is nothing exquisite about my life. It's mine, though, so I'm going to make something out of it.”
― Renée Watson, Piecing Me Together

“I am ripping and cutting. Gluing and pasting. Rearranging reality, redefining, covering, disguising.

Tonight I am taking ugly and making beautiful,”
― Renée Watson, Piecing Me Together