Ghost Boys Quotes

“Only the living can make the world better. Live and make it better" (Rhodes).”
― Jewell Parker Rhodes, Ghost Boys

“Can't undo wrong. Can only do our best to make things right.”
― Jewell Parker Rhodes, Ghost Boys

“Can't undo wrong. Can only do our best to make things right" -Grandma”
― Jewell Parker Rhodes, Ghost Boys

“Bear witness. My tale is told
Wake. Only the living can make the world better.
Live and make it better. Don’t let me
(Or anyone else)
Tell this tale again”
― Jewell Parker Rhodes, Ghost Boys

“Sarah’s face is bleak. “I’m so sorry, Jerome. So, so sorry. If I could, I would hug you. Bring you back to life.” Her body leans forward like she thinks she”
― Jewell Parker Rhodes, Ghost Boys

“When truth’s a feeling, can it be both? Both true and untrue?”
― Jewell Parker Rhodes, Ghost Boys

“In this neighborhood, getting a child to adulthood is perilous.”
― Jewell Parker Rhodes, Ghost Boys

“Can’t undo wrong. Can only do our best to make things right.”
― Jewell Parker Rhodes, Ghost Boys

“Color shouldn’t make anybody scared. Is it because slavery happened? Is that why some whites are afraid of black people? I don’t know. Wake up, people, I want to tell everyone. Fear, stereotypes about black boys don’t make the world better.”
― Jewell Parker Rhodes, Ghost Boys

“Bear witness. My tale is told.
Wake. Only the living can make the world better.
Live and make it better. Don't let me
(Or anyone else)
Tell this tale again.”
― Jewell Parker Rhodes, Ghost Boys

“If people know more about other people, she says, 'maybe they won't be scared?”
― Jewell Parker Rhodes, Ghost Boys

“Everyone gets scared sometimes. It's how you handle it that matters.”
― Jewell Parker Rhodes, Ghost Boys

“One day. Got to believe, Jerome. You've got to believe.”
― Jewell Parker Rhodes, Ghost Boys

“I've got troubles but I don't get in trouble. Big difference.”
― Jewell Parker Rhodes, Ghost Boys

“People change, but not enough at the same time. Or, maybe, people change, then forget they've changed and keep hurting.”
― Jewell Parker Rhodes, Ghost Boys

“Officer Moore speaks (I think) a truth he believes. When truth's a feeling, can it be both? Both true and untrue?”
― Jewell Parker Rhodes, Ghost Boys

“Baseball, basketball. Not much difference, is there? Times change.
It's people need to change.”
― Jewell Parker Rhodes, Ghost Boys

“It's wrong to be bullied for no reason. It's worse when someone has a reason. Like prejudice How'd your dad get that? Who taught him? You're not prejudiced, He reacted to me without knowing me.”
― Jewell Parker Rhodes, Ghost Boys

“Middle school is like a country. Alliances are hard, dangerous. Other kids' fights become your fights. You have to worry about your friends' friends, their gangs on the streets and in school. Everyone's in a crew.”
― Jewell Parker Rhodes, Ghost Boys

“Me and all the other boys on her computer screen have names. Jerome Rogers. Tamir Rice. Laquan McDonald. Trayvon Martin. Michael Brown. Jordan Edwards. We're people. Black kids.
Colour shouldn't make anybody scared. Is it because slavery happened? Is that why some whites are afraid of black people? I don't know. Wake up, people, I want to tell everyone. Fear, stereotypes about black boys don't make the world better.”
― Jewell Parker Rhodes, Ghost Boys