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Funny how it works with white kids though. It’s dope to be black until it’s hard to be black.
Pac said Thug Life stood for ‘The Hate U Give Little Infants Fucks Everybody.’”
people like us in situations like this become hashtags, but they rarely get justice. I think we all wait for that one time though, that one time when it ends right.
Good-byes hurt the most when the other person’s already gone.
‘Sometimes you can do everything right and things will still go wrong. The key is to never stop doing right.’”
“Right. Lack of opportunities,” Daddy says. “Corporate America don’t bring jobs to our communities, and they damn sure ain’t quick to hire us. Then, shit, even if you do have a high school diploma, so many of the schools in our neighborhoods don’t prepare us
“How did the drugs even get in our neighborhood? This is a multibillion-dollar industry
get arrested for selling drugs, they either spend most of their life in prison, another billion-dollar industry, or they have a hard time getting a real job and probably start selling drugs again. That’s the hate they’re giving us, baby, a system designed against us. That’s Thug Life.”
Daddy once told me there’s a rage passed down to every black man from his ancestors, born the moment they couldn’t stop the slave masters from hurting their families. Daddy also said there’s nothing more dangerous than when that rage is activated.
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.
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.
“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.”
