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1 " Anyone who can see will see you beautiful. "
― Kekla Magoon
2 " In the white newspapers, they use it against us. They make the Panthers look like we all just want to rip the throats out of some white folks for no good reason. We have good reasons, but we still don't want to do that. "
― Kekla Magoon , Fire in the Streets (The Rock and the River, #2)
3 " People make mistakes. They look at the surface of things and see what they want to. "
― Kekla Magoon , How It Went Down
4 " If you just play really hard, he says, nothing else matters. "
― Kekla Magoon , Camo Girl
5 " The river moves, but it follows a path. When it tires of one journey, it rubs through some rock to forge a new way. Hard work, but that's its nature. "
― Kekla Magoon , The Rock and the River (The Rock and the River, #1)
6 " I'm really good with problems. I can solve a differential equation in my head. I chew through trig angles like candy. I know this, and it just makes it worse. Because I don't know how to solve this one. "
7 " You're only responsible for your own actions. You can't control how someone else reacts to what you do. You made a choice. Stand by it. "
8 " The river is motion, turmoil, rage. As the river flows, it wonders what it would be like to be so still, to take a breath, to rest. But the rock will always wonder what lies around the bend in the stream. "
9 " It's not that you said it. I care that you even though it. "
10 " As a black man, you have to keep your head down. You have to keep yourself steady. You have to follow every rule that's ever been written, plus a few that have always remained unspoken. "
11 " My shoes dangle from my fingertips because, all things considered, barefoot is better. "
12 " They spin away, always away. Too fast to understand, sometimes. They rush on, but we remain. They will come back, and we will still be here, as they expect us to be. We are the guardians.In between each small flurry, we rest. We breathe. Redeema raises her face to the sky. "My children," she murmurs, and the sound of it aches. "
13 " I was leaning over him when he died. My hands on his chest. My palms felt his last breath move inside him. His chest rose and fell and then kept falling, like it could carry us both straight down through the earth.I didn't stop pushing, but I knew. Right then. I was breathing hard myself. My lungs probably took int he last air Tariq ever exhaled. It can't possibly be in me anymore, but it feels like it is. Like it's weighing heavy on my chest with every breath I take, even now. "
14 " Trouble ain’t met trouble till it crosses paths with us! "
― Kekla Magoon , Rebellion of Thieves (Robyn Hoodlum, #2)
15 " I wish she would just look at me, look at my face and stop talking long enough to see me. To see that things are not right. That none of this is real and I am in some other place. "
― Kekla Magoon , 37 Things I Love (in No Particular Order)
16 " Like I always tell Will: If you dress like a hood, you will get treated like a hood. If you want to get treated like a man, you have to dress like a man. Simple as that. It's how this world works. It stops being about the color of your skin after a while and starts being about how you comport yourself. Inside, too, but mostly out. "
17 " I've never had a guy who's interested in the rest of me. One who likes to look into my eyes. To most guys, I'm just a round face, a double-E cup, and a pair of hippo hips. "
18 " Things of innocence should not spark rage. Things of innocence should not spark fear. Things of innocence should go on and on and on, until they end in something poignant, beautiful. Should go on and on, until they grow. "
― Kekla Magoon , Light It Up
19 " Saying goodbye usually meansyou will get to say hello againsoonWe shout it from the doorwayfrom the streetback and forthuntil we can’t hear each otheranymore. "
20 " Everyone makes sacrifices. Dad’s voice in her head. The trick is to know for sure what it is you want most. "
