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A hairbrush is not a gun.

When you fight, you put yourself out there, not caring who you hurt or if you'll get hurt.

empathy is more powerful than sympathy

You can destroy wood and brick, but you can't destroy a movement.

How he could sell the very stuff that took his momma from him? Did he realize that he was taking somebody else's momma from them? Did

Once you've seen how broken someone is it's like seeing them naked - you can't look at them the same anymore.

Brave doesn't mean you're not scared, Starr," she says. "It means you go on even though you're scared. And you're doing that." She

T-H-U-G L-I-F-E. Meaning what society give us as youth, it bites them in the ass when we wild out. Get it?" "Damn.

When you're a kid in a one-bedroom in the projects, rich is the best thing anybody can be.

If bravery is a medical condition, everybody's misdiagnosed me.

My two worlds just collided. Surprisingly, everything's all right.

Besties before testes.

At an early age I learned that people make mistakes, and you have to decide if their mistakes are bigger than your love for them.

Sometimes you can do everything right and things will still go wrong. The key is to never stop doing right.

Black Jesus hangs from the cross in a painting on the hallway wall, and Malcolm X holds a shotgun in a photograph next to him.

Pac said Thug Life stood for 'The Hate U Give Little Infants Fucks Everybody'.

We want freedom,'" I say. "'We want the power to determine the destiny of our black and oppressed communities.'" "Say

I can't change where I come from or what I've been through, so why should I be ashamed of what makes me, me?

The truth casts a shadow over the kitchen - people like us in situations like this become hashtags, but they rarely get justice.

Brave doesn't mean you're not scared. It means you go on even though you're scared.

What is Tumblr anyway? Is it like Facebook?"
"No, and you're forbidden to get one. No parents allowed. You guys already took over Facebook.

What's the point of having a voice if you're gonna be silent in those moments you shouldn't be?

A hairbrush.
Khalil died over a fucking hairbrush.

It's dope to be black until it's hard to be black.

That's the hate they're giving us, baby, a system designed against us. That's Thug Life

You need Saturday to recover and Sunday to repent.

People say misery loves company, but I think it's like that with anger too.

Holy shit. Who the fuck complains about going to Harry Potter World? Or Butter Beer? Or wands?

Good-byes hurt the most when the other person's already gone.

Intentions always look better on paper than in reality.

Be roses that grow in the concrete

I've taught myself to speak with two different voices and only say certain things around certain people. I've mastered it.