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Ace of Spades QUOTES

Ace of Spades QUOTES

1 " Money can only get you so far; you need power and influence to go with it. "

― Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé , Ace of Spades

2 " I didn’t invent this twisted system that pits us against each other and makes us do crappy things for status—but I do know how to play it. "

― Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé , Ace of Spades

3 " Well even if you wanted to be sad about it...you're not a bad person. Just human "

― Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé , Ace of Spades

4 " I hate how they have the power to kill my future, kill me. They treat my Black skin like a gun or a grenade or a knife that is dangerous and lethal, when really it’s them. The guys at the top powering everything. "

― Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé , Ace of Spades

5 " But I know dreams are dangerous; they give me too much false hope. "

― Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé , Ace of Spades

6 " When you grow up like this, whether it’s in your nature or not, sometimes survival overpowers doing the right thing. "

― Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé , Ace of Spades

7 " I’m tired of having faith things will work out, only for any hope I have to be violently crushed. "

― Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé , Ace of Spades

8 " They say life is full of surprises. That our dreams really can come true. Then again, so can our nightmares ... "

― Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé , Ace of Spades

9 " They say life is full of surprises. That our dreams really can come true. Then again, so can our nightmares ... (from Gossip Girl) "

― Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé , Ace of Spades

10 " I stop myself from apologizing-because what would I even be sorry for? Existing too loud? "

― Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé , Ace of Spades

11 " Growing up, I realized quite quickly that people hate being called racist more than they hate racism itself. "

― Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé , Ace of Spades

12 " They say love and hate are the same, just at different ends of the blade "

― Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé , Ace of Spades

13 " I don’t straighten my hair because I hate it; I straighten it because everyone else hates it for me. "

― Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé , Ace of Spades

14 " The smell of bitch-ass liar is nauseating. "

― Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé , Ace of Spades

15 " And I won’t roll over and let someone else take my crown. Not in a million years. "

― Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé , Ace of Spades

16 " I’m Chiamaka fucking Adebayo—I don’t need some prick telling me who I am and who I should be. "

― Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé , Ace of Spades

17 " Even though I know I shouldn’t care, it annoys me that when girls know what they want and how they’re going to get it, they’re seen as cocky. But guys who know what they want? They’re confident or strong. "

― Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé , Ace of Spades

18 " By fire, by force”. "

― Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé , Ace of Spades

19 " No matter what I do, no matter how much I iron down the hair that springs from my scalp, or work as hard as I can, I’m always going to be other to them. Not good enough for this place I’ve tried to call home all my life. "

― Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé , Ace of Spades

20 " Note to self: Don’t delete numbers of the people you hate. They might come in handy someday. "

― Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé , Ace of Spades