Top 280 Angie Thomas Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “See, the one thing good memories and bad memories have in common is that they both stay with you. I guess that’s why I’ve never known how I feel about this place.”

— Angie Thomas

52. “People like us in situations like this become hashtags, but they rarely get justice. I think we all wait for that one time though, that one time when it ends right.”

— Angie Thomas

53. “Soms doe je niets verkeerd en gaat het toch fout. De sleutel is om het altijd goed te blijven doen.”

— Angie Thomas

54. “You need Saturday to recover and Sunday to repent.”

— Angie Thomas

55. “Black Jesus hangs from the cross in a painting on the hallway wall, and Malcolm X holds a shotgun in a photograph next to him.”

— Angie Thomas

56. “My neighborhood is a war zone.”

— Angie Thomas

57. “I’m lying in bed. Khalil is lying in the county morgue.”

— Angie Thomas

58. “Problem is it would’ve taken Black Jesus to convince my parents to let me come. Now Black Jesus will have to save me if they find out I’m here.”

— Angie Thomas

59. “Are you serious right now?” Hailey asks. “What’s wrong with saying his life matters too?” “His life always matters more!” My voice is gruff, and my throat is tight. “That’s the problem!” “Starr!”

— Angie Thomas

60. “But there’s only so long you can blame what you’ve been through for what you do. At some point, you gotta blame yourself.”

— Angie Thomas

61. “T-H-U-G L-I-F-E. Meaning what society give us as youth, it bites them in the ass when we wild out. Get it?” “Damn.”

— Angie Thomas

62. “That’s why people are speaking out, huh? Because it won’t change if we don’t say something.”

— Angie Thomas

63. “If it’s revealed that I was in the car, what will that make me? The thug ghetto girl with the drug dealer?”

— Angie Thomas

64. “I don’t have to wait around for her to change. I can let go.”

— Angie Thomas

65. “Not everything deserves your energy.”

— Angie Thomas

66. “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

67. “Because it won’t change if we don’t say something.”

— Angie Thomas

68. “I once posted a picture of Emmett Till, a fourteen-year-old black boy who was murdered for whistling at a white woman in 1955. His mutilated body didn’t look human. Hailey texted me immediately after, freaking out. I thought it was because she couldn’t believe someone would do that to a kid. No. She couldn’t believe I would reblog such an awful picture. Not long after that, she stopped liking and reblogging my other posts.”

— Angie Thomas

69. “Some things are worth more than money, baby” -Jay.”

— Angie Thomas

70. “People are realizing and shouting and marching and demanding. They’re not forgetting. I think that’s the most important part.”

— Angie Thomas

71. “One of the nurses took my hand... looked me in the eye, and said, ‘Sometimes, you can do everything right, and things will still go wrong. The key is to never stop doing right.”

— Angie Thomas

72. “You’d be surprised at how many of us want justice in this case,” says Uncle Carlos. “But of course, classic Maverick. Every cop is automatically a bad cop.”

— Angie Thomas

73. “Basically, Williamson Starr doesn’t give anyone a reason to call her ghetto.”

— Angie Thomas

74. “That’s when I learned that when people die, they sometimes take the living with them.”

— Angie Thomas

75. “Others are fighting too, even in the Garden, where sometimes it feels like there’s not a lot worth fighting for. People are realizing and shouting and marching and demanding. They’re not forgetting. I think that’s the most important part. Khalil, I’ll never forget. I’ll never give up. I’ll never be quiet. I promise.”

— Angie Thomas

76. “Roses can bloom in the hardest conditions.”

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77. “But Ms. Ofrah says this interview is the way I fight. When you fight, you put yourself out there, not caring who you hurt or if you’ll get hurt. So I throw one more blow, right at One-Fifteen. “I’d ask him if he wished he shot me too.”

— Angie Thomas

78. “Hoedom is universal.”

— Angie Thomas

79. “They probably heard me crying. Great. What’s worse than being the Angry Black Girl? The Weak Black Girl.”

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80. “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

81. “Look, you can’t be worried about what folks think... There will always be someone with something to say, but it doesn’t mean you gotta listen.”

— Angie Thomas

82. “Ne-gro, please. If I kill Tyrone, I’m going to prison. If a cop kills me, he’s getting put on leave. Maybe.”

— Angie Thomas

83. “Yet I think it’ll change one day. How? I don’t know. When? I definitely don’t know. Why? Because there will always be someone ready to fight. Maybe it’s my turn.”

— Angie Thomas

84. “I can’t breathe like I’m drowning in the tears I refuse to shed.”

— Angie Thomas

85. “This is Popkenchurch. Popkenchurch is when you buy fried chicken and Cajun rice from Popeyes, biscuits from KFC, and fried okra and corn on the cob from Church’s.”

— Angie Thomas

86. “I’ve taught myself to speak with two different voices and only say certain things around certain people. I’ve mastered it.”

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87. “Intentions always look better on paper than in reality.”

— Angie Thomas

88. “And one was at the hands of a person who was supposed to protect her! What, you think if you live next door to them, they’ll treat you different?”

— Angie Thomas

89. “If bravery is a medical condition, everybody’s misdiagnosed me.”

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90. “Yeah. A li’l damaged, but alive. I’m gon’ try something different with them. Putting them in new soil can be like hitting a reset button.”

— Angie Thomas

91. “I asked Dr. Davis if Just Us could have a roundtable discussion at Williamson like they do at Garden High. He said he didn’t see the need.”

— Angie Thomas

92. “I didn’t know a dead person could be charged in his own murder, you know?”

— Angie Thomas

93. “Funny how it works with white kids though. It’s dope to be black until it’s hard to be black.”

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94. “No lie, every time a sneaker is cleaned improperly, a kitten dies.”

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95. “It’s about way more than that though. It’s about Seven. Sekani. Kenya. DeVante. It’s also about Oscar. Aiyana. Trayvon. Rekia. Michael. Eric. Tamir. John. Ezell. Sandra. Freddie. Alton. Philando. It’s even about that little boy in 1955 who nobody recognized at first – Emmett.”

— Angie Thomas

96. “They leave Khalil’s body in the street like it’s an exhibit. Police cars and ambulances flash all along Carnation Street. People stand off to the side, trying to see what happened.”

— Angie Thomas

97. “Jay’s a people person. I’m more of a “yes, people exist, but that doesn’t mean I need to talk to them” person.”

— Angie Thomas

98. “He got a tan over break. I used to tell him he was so pale he looked like a marshmallow. He hated that I compared him to food. I told him that’s what he got for calling me caramel. It shut him up.”

— Angie Thomas

99. “And I think you’re brilliant, talented, courageous, beautiful. You’re my miracle. But you’re the only one who can say who you are with authority. So, who are you?”

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100. “One-Fifteen I’m often asked why Starr never refers to the police officer who shot Khalil by his name, only by his badge number. Since her father has always instilled in her that names have power, it’s hard for Starr to give the officer any sort of power by referring to him by his given name. By using his badge number, it’s her way of refusing to humanize him – because in her mind, what he did to her and Khalil in that moment was anything but humane.”

— Angie Thomas