The Hate U Give (The Hate U Give, #1)

by Angie Thomas

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

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

“You still got that old laptop? The one you had before we bought you that expensive-ass fruit one?”

I laugh. “It’s an Apple MacBook, Daddy.” “It damn sure wasn’t the price of an apple. Anyway, you got the old one?”

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.

That’s the problem. We let people say stuff, and they say it so much that it becomes okay to them and normal for us. What’s the point of having a voice if you’re gonna be silent in those moments you shouldn’t be?

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.”

Intentions always look better on paper than in reality. The reality is, I may not make it to the courthouse in the morning.

“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.”