Asiya Rodriguez > Asiya's Quotes

“What do you do when the people you love no longer feel like home?”
― Christina Hammonds Reed, The Black Kids

“We all sew a few sequins on our stories to make them shine brighter.”
― Christina Hammonds Reed, The Black Kids

“They don't fucking see us even when they're looking right at us.”
― Christina Hammonds Reed, The Black Kids

“Fight until you can’t breathe, & if you have to forfeit, you forfeit smiling, make them think you let them win.”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, Clap When You Land

“To think quick & strike hard, to speak rarely, but when I did, to always be heard.”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, Clap When You Land

“she is the only person who can understand what I feel,
but she is also at the root of the hurt I'm feeling.”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, Clap When You Land

“Silence and shame aren’t the same thing—not by a longshot. But sometimes silence is simpler.”
― Leah Johnson, You Should See Me in a Crown

“I try to channel the confidence of a mediocre white man in a boardroom: untouchable.”
― Leah Johnson, You Should See Me in a Crown

“When you already feel like everything about you makes you stand out, it just makes more sense to find as many ways to blend in as you can.”
― Leah Johnson, You Should See Me in a Crown

“I never needed this race or a hashtag or the king to be a queen. I was born royalty. All I had to do was pick up my crown.”
― Leah Johnson, You Should See Me in a Crown

“Terrible people aren't always the ones doing something wrong. Good people mess up too, but that doesn't mean we should let it slide.”
― Leah Johnson, You Should See Me in a Crown

“You may be born into a family, but you walk into friendships. Some you’ll discover you should put behind you. Others are worth every risk.”
― Adam Silvera, They Both Die at the End

“Sometimes the truth is a secret you're keeping from yourself because living a lie is easier.”
― Adam Silvera, They Both Die at the End

“Entire lives aren't lessons, but there are lessons in lives.”
― Adam Silvera, They Both Die at the End

“No one goes on, but what we leave behind keeps us alive for someone else.”
― Adam Silvera, They Both Die at the End

“you definitely don’t need the same blood to lose a part of yourself when someone dies.”
― Adam Silvera, They Both Die at the End

“We were all lost and okay with not being found for a while.”
― Adam Silvera, They Both Die at the End

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that’s all.”
― Adam Silvera, They Both Die at the End

“An AK-47 in a white hand has more rights than a Black kid with Skittles.”
― Kim Johnson, This Is My America

“The smell of bitch-ass liar is nauseating.”
― Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, Ace of Spades

“And I won’t roll over and let someone else take my crown. Not in a million years.”
― Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, Ace of Spades