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“I tense as footage of my neighborhood, my home, is shown. It’s like they picked the worst parts—the drug addicts roaming the streets, the broken-down Cedar Grove projects, gangbangers flashing signs, bodies on the sidewalks with white sheets over them. What about Mrs. Rooks and her cakes? Or Mr. Lewis and his haircuts? Mr. Reuben? The clinic? My family? Me?”
― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give

“Seven and I get Sekani after school, and he won’t shut up about the news cameras he saw from his classroom window, because he’s Sekani and he came into this world looking for a camera. I have too many selfies of him on my phone giving the “light skin face,” his eyes squinted and eyebrows raised.”
― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give

“People at the top are self-conscious about what they say (and rightfully so) because they have position and privilege to protect — and self-consciousness is the enemy of “interestingness.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures

“Iqbal, that great poet, was so right. The moment you recognize what is beautiful in this world, you stop being a slave.”
― Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger