Dear Justyce Quotes

“Resist when the world tries to convince you otherwise.”
― Nic Stone, Dear Justyce

“And that’s what it comes down to. We find the families we were desperate for and learn different ways of going about things. Ways that sometimes land us in places/positions we don’t really wanna be in.”
― Nic Stone, Dear Justyce

“If you were ME, and I was YOU, would you invest in ME as YOU?”
― Nic Stone, Dear Justyce

“Dude had all these obstacles he couldn’t seem to get past no matter how hard he tried, and it was almost as though falling into the life of crime everybody expected from him was (sorta) unavoidable? I know it probably sounds crazy to an upstanding young gentleman such as yourself, but for real: based on the systems in place—the “institutions of oppression,” as my former mentor, Martel, would say—homie’s situation and how he ended up kinda seemed like destiny.”
― Nic Stone, Dear Justyce

“there was no not noticing the number of brown faces that came and stayed compared to the number of not-brown ones that came and left.”
― Nic Stone, Dear Justyce

“Those assholes can’t seem to care about being offensive, so why should I give a damn about being agreeable?”
― Nic Stone, Dear Justyce

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― Nic Stone, Dear Justyce

“The reason I joined the Black Jihad: I needed backup. Support without judgment. People who hadn’t—and wouldn’t—give up on me. I needed a family.”
― Nic Stone, Dear Justyce

“Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny.”
― Nic Stone, Dear Justyce

“how pointless it is to have access to basically everything when you’re a person who’s satisfied by nothing.”
― Nic Stone, Dear Justyce

“what he did. Staying focused didn’t give Quan any control at all.”
― Nic Stone, Dear Justyce