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This week’s topic: Favorite Book Quotes. These quotes are from my current reads, The Hate U Give, Homegoing and Uncovering Officer Smith.
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
“THUG LIFE. The Hate U Give Little Infants F***s Everybody. Meaning what society gives us as a youth, it bites them in the ass when we wild out.” – Khalil
“Funerals aren’t for dead people. They’re for the living.” – Starr
“DeVante?”
“Yeah that’s me. You heard about me or something?”
“Yeah I’ve heard about you. And you may wanna get some Chapstick if your lips that dry, since you licking them so much.” – Starr and DeVante
Uncovering Officer Smith by Sheena Hutchinson
“You can try to hide behind all those books, Becca Swanson, but I see you. I’ve always seen you.” – John Smith
Homegoing by Ya’a Gyasi
“She’d heard the Englishmen call them ‘wenches,’ not wives. ‘Wife’ was a word reserved for the white women across the Atlantic. ‘Wench’ was something else entirely, a word the soldiers used to keep their hands clean so that they would not get in trouble with their god, a being who himself was made up of three but who allowed men to marry only one.”
“Weakness is treating someone as though they belong to you. Strength is knowing that everyone belongs to themselves.”
“Margaret rushed her into the back room, and left in search of field clothes, and Ness stood in the center of that room, running her hands along her body, reveling in her ugly nakedness. She knew it was the intricate scars on her bare shoulders that had alarmed them all, but the scars weren’t just there. No, her scarred skin was like another body in and of itself, shaped like a man hugging her from behind with his arms hanging around her neck. They went up from her breasts, rounded the hills of her shoulders, and traveled the full, proud length of her back. They licked the top of her buttocks before trailing away into nothing. Ness’s skin was no longer skin really, more like the ghost of her past made seeable, physical. She didn’t mind the reminder.” – This quote to me is so sad, but I love how you can picture each and every scar on her body from the whippings.
“The British were no longer selling slaves to America, but slavery had not ended, and his father did not seem to think that it would end. They would just trade one type of shackles for another, trade physical ones that wrapped around wrists and ankles for the invisible ones that wrapped around the mind.” – This quote says more about the systemic racism and prejudice of today than in the 1700s. Not much has changed.
“…if God was so big, so powerful, why did he need the white man to bring him to them? Why could he not tell them himself, make his presence known as he had in the days written about in the Book, with bush fires and dead men walking?”
I could go on and on about how incredible Homegoing is, but I’ll let you read the book in its entirety to get more amazing quotes!
What are some of your favorite book quotes? Comment below!
