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“My brothers are no longer children, and they're already trapped in a school system that is failing them, just like the mayor says.”
― Echo Brown, Black Girl Unlimited

“The mayor says, "That school is a disaster that needs to be repaired and restored immediately, but the city is broke and who pays the price for an inadequate education? You guessed it, the students.”
― Echo Brown, Black Girl Unlimited

“No mourners, no funerals. Another way of saying good luck. But it was something more. A dark wink to the fact that there would be no expensive burials for people like them, no marble markers to remember their names, no wreaths of myrtle and rose.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“I begin to wonder if white is the color of things to be worshipped in this world. If it's the only color to be worshipped in this world.”
― Echo Brown, Black Girl Unlimited