The Hate U Give

by Angie Thomas

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.

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.”