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We were ten, we didn’t know what happened after you died. Hell, I still don’t know, and she was forced to find out, even if she didn’t wanna find out.
I always said that if I saw it happen to somebody, I would have the loudest voice, making sure the world knew what went down. Now I am that person, and I’m too afraid to speak.
See, that’s why I hate it when somebody dies. People do stuff they wouldn’t usually do.
"Regret is stronger than love. Thats why people say nice things bout someone at their funeral; its because they didn't say them enough when they were here."
people like us in situations like this become hashtags, but they rarely get justice.
just because Khalil’s not living doesn’t mean you stop living.
Funerals aren’t for dead people. They’re for the living. I doubt Khalil cares what songs are sung or what the preacher says about him. He’s in a casket. Nothing can change that.
‘Sometimes you can do everything right and things will still go wrong. The key is to never stop doing right.’”
dealers.” 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?
Funny. Slave masters thought they were making a difference in black people’s lives too. Saving them from their “wild African ways.” Same shit, different century. I wish people like them would stop thinking that people like me need saving.
And at the end of the day, you don’t kill someone for opening a car door. If you do, you shouldn’t be a cop.”
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.”
“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.”
