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i'm starting this book again. its really hard for me to get past the first chapter

"All I knew was that I had all these developing feelings for boys and that I wanted desperately for them to notice me. They did, but for reasons that didn't help my quest: my nap-tural hair; my underdeveloped, seemingly concave breasts; my white-girl accent, and my tomboyish appearance."

"At only eleven years of age, I was a cyber ho."

"you have been cast into a race in which the wind is always at your face and the hounds are always at your heels. And to varying degrees this is true of all life. The difference is that you do not have the privilege of living in ignorance of this essential fact."

"When their own vulnerability becomes real - when the police decide that tactics intended for the ghetto should enjoy wider usage, when their armed society shoots down their children, when nature sends hurricanes against their cities - they are shocked in a way that those of us who were born and bred to understand cause and effect can never be. "

"the enslaved were not bricks in your road, and their lives were not chapters in your redemptive history. They were people turned to fuel for the American machine. Enslavement was not destined to end, and it is wrong to claim our present circumstance - no matter how improved - as the redemption for the lives of people who never asked for the posthumous, untouchable glory of dying for their children.

i can already tell i love this book. can't lie and say i'm not reading this because of the lady who dissed trump at his rally but still. good so far

still bored

i wish i could hurry up and finish this book. it doesn't really keep my attention. it reminds me of reading old yeller in school. i probably need to lock myself in my mother's bathroom and lay on the floor and speed read my way through this