Concrete Rose Quotes

“It's kinda like how we have to do with ourselves. Get rid of the things that don't do us any good. If it won't help the rose grow, you've gotta let it go.”
― Angie Thomas, Concrete Rose

“You gotta love people enough to let them go, especially when you're the reason they're gone.”
― Angie Thomas, Concrete Rose

“Son, one of the biggest lies ever told is that black men don't feel emotions. Guess it's easier not to see us as human when you think we're heartless. Fact of the matter is, we feel things. Hurt, pain, sadness, all of it. We got a right to show them feelings as much as anybody else.”
― Angie Thomas, Concrete Rose

“Living your life based off what other people think, ain’t living at all.”
― Angie Thomas, Concrete Rose

“like to be reminded that beauty can come from much of nothing. To me that’s the whole point of flowers.”
― Angie Thomas, Concrete Rose

“Keep Pushing Mav," Rico Says ," Tough situations don't last. Tough People Do.”
― Angie Thomas, Concrete Rose

“I'm tired of hearing about all these fucked-up white people who did a bunch of fucked-up stuff, yet people wanna call them heroes”
― Angie Thomas, Concrete Rose

“The world got some nerve going on without him. People laughing and dreaming when Dre can't.”
― Angie Thomas, Concrete Rose

“Loving you isn't enough. Being hard on you isn't enough. I haven't been enough.”
― Angie Thomas, Concrete Rose

“Granny do them long prayers, man. She act like God don't know what's going on and it's her job to fill him in”
― Angie Thomas, Concrete Rose

“Parenting is hard, cuz. You gon’ break sometimes. The most important thing is that you pull yourself together and go back,”
― Angie Thomas, Concrete Rose

“I bet she need a distraction, and babies good at helping you forget death. Probably 'cause they so new.”
― Angie Thomas, Concrete Rose

“I'm starting to think being a parent mean you don’t get to have much yourself. All my energy, my money, and my time go to him.”
― Angie Thomas, Concrete Rose

“Ain’t no astronauts, doctors, or veterinarians around here. Everybody I know just tryna work”
― Angie Thomas, Concrete Rose

“Time is funny, man. Life is funny. We all on this huge planet tryna figure shit out. What is the planet already got it figured out? What if the whole point is for us to mot figure it out? What is God playing with like...like dolls? Some diverse-ass Barbies”
― Angie Thomas, Concrete Rose

“Oh. Well, seven supposed to be holy and the number of perfection,” I say. “I think I wanna make Maverick his middle name. Everybody say he look like me. Since that’s the case, I want him to be the best version of me. The perfect Maverick Carter.”
― Angie Thomas, Concrete Rose

“What if you had like a trillion dollars and could live out here in a gigantic mansion. Would you be bougie?'
'Nah, 'cause I wouldn't live out here. I'd live on a private island somewhere so I ain't gotta be bothered by nobody.”
― Angie Thomas, Concrete Rose

“I fell asleep in US history. It was boring anyway. I’m tired of hearing ’bout all these fucked-up white people who did fucked-up stuff, yet people wanna call them heroes.”
― Angie Thomas, Concrete Rose

“Oooh, these ol' kness. What can I tell you? Roses can bloom in the hardest conditions.

- Mr Wyatt”
― Angie Thomas, Concrete Rose

“That’s Ma for you. Granny say she came in the world ready for whatever. When things fall apart, she quick to grab the pieces and make something new outta them.”
― Angie Thomas, Concrete Rose

“Romeo and Juliet was basically on some gang shit. You could say she was a Queen Lord, and he was a GD. They went out on their own terms like some straight-up Gs.”
― Angie Thomas, Concrete Rose

“I swear King never give a you-know-what. I think I care more 'bout him than he care 'bout himself.”
― Angie Thomas, Concrete Rose

“sometimes one person's hero is another person's monster”
― Angie Thomas, Concrete Rose

“For all the roses growing in concrete. Keep blossoming.”
― Angie Thomas, Concrete Rose

“Looks like you’re right. These canes need to be snipped.”
“Because they won’t help them grow, right?”
“Mmm-hmm. It’s kinda like how we have to do with ourselves. Get rid of things that don’t do us any good. If it won’t help the rose grow, you’ve gotta let it go.”
― Angie Thomas, Concrete Rose

“Give him a name that tells him who he is and who he can be. The world’s gon’ try to do that enough.”
― Angie Thomas, Concrete Rose

“No matter where you come from, you're always worth more than you think,”
― Angie Thomas, Concrete Rose

“Lisa caress her belly. “One of the few good things during all the bad stuff.” I wrap my arms around her, placing my hands over hers. “She been that for me, too.” Lisa rest her head against my arm, and it’s like we just created our own world where it don’t matter that we two kids who don’t know what the hell we doing. All that matter is us. I look up at the night sky. It’s pitch black, and yet that somehow make the stars shine brighter. Hundreds of lights in all that darkness. Wait a second. A light in the darkness. I smile, and I look at Lisa. “I think I got a name.”
― Angie Thomas, Concrete Rose

“He yawn and lay down on me. Naptime creeping up on him. I stay this way a minute. I like listening to him breathe and feeling his chest rise against mine. He don’t know that I’m tired all the time or that I’m technically a kid. He just know that I got him. When we like this, I ain’t gotta know a whole lot either. I just know that I love him. I kiss his temple so he’ll know it.”
― Angie Thomas, Concrete Rose

“They remind me a lot of my son, honestly. See, with plants and babies it’s all about survival. Nobody flat-out say that when it comes to babies, but it’s the truth. I gotta make sure the plants get everything they need to grow like I gotta do with Seven.”
― Angie Thomas, Concrete Rose