Top 280 Angie Thomas Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “Our friendship is based on memories. What do we have now?”

— Angie Thomas

102. “That’s the hate they’re giving us, baby, a system designed against us. That’s Thug Life.”

— Angie Thomas

103. “My nana likes to say that spring brings love. Spring in Garden Heights doesn’t always bring love, but it promises babies in the winter.”

— Angie Thomas

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

— Angie Thomas

105. “You’re a classic case of oppositional defiant disorder.”

— Angie Thomas

106. “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

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

— Angie Thomas

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

— Angie Thomas

109. “Sometimes she’s my personal Yoda. If Yoda was a woman and had a gold grill. Unfortunately, she doesn’t know who Yoda is.”

— Angie Thomas

110. “When Daddy isn’t home, Seven acts like he’s the man of the house by default. Momma always has to break his name down and put him in his place.”

— Angie Thomas

111. “Crying doesn’t make you weak, Bri, and even if it did, there’s nothing wrong with that. Admitting that you’re weak is one of the strongest things you can do” -Trey.”

— Angie Thomas

112. “DeVante. Khalil. Neither one of them thought they had much of a choice. If I were them, I’m not sure I’d make a much better one.”

— Angie Thomas

113. “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

114. “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?”

— Angie Thomas

115. “At an early age I learned that people make mistakes, and you have to decide if their mistakes are bigger than your love for them.”

— Angie Thomas

116. “People say misery loves company, but I think it’s like that with anger too.”

— Angie Thomas

117. “I’d ask him if he wished he shot me too.”

— Angie Thomas

118. “I shouldn’t have come to this party.”

— Angie Thomas

119. “It’s that time between day and night when the sky looks like it’s on fire and mosquitoes are on the hunt.”

— Angie Thomas

120. “See, that’s why I hate it when somebody dies. People do stuff they wouldn’t usually do.”

— Angie Thomas

121. “Fairy tale? No. But I’m not giving up on a better ending. It would be easy to quit if it was just about me, Khalil, that night, and that cop. 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

122. “Something to live for, something to die for.”

— Angie Thomas

123. “I squeeze through sweaty bodies and follow Kenya, her curls bouncing past her shoulders. A haze lingers over the room, smelling like weed, and music rattles the floor. Some rapper calls out for everybody to Nae-Nae, followed by a bunch of “Heys” as people launch into their own versions.”

— Angie Thomas

124. “I’m done being who my dad wants me to be,” Miles says. “It’s not worth it.” Does he mean what I think he means? “You’re giving up your rap career?” Miles slowly nods. “Yeah. I am. Besides, is it really mine if I’m not being myself?”

— Angie Thomas

125. “But I’m tired of them just assuming.”

— Angie Thomas

126. “I walk into the most heartfelt hug I’ve ever gotten from somebody who’s not related to me. There’s not any sympathy in it either. Just love and strength.”

— Angie Thomas

127. “DeVante’s got a point. What makes his name or our names any less normal than yours? Who or what defines ‘normal’ to you? If my pops were here, he’d say you’ve fallen into the trap of the white standard.”

— Angie Thomas

128. “The beautiful thing about best friends? They can tell when you don’t wanna talk, and they don’t push it.”

— Angie Thomas

129. “Ain’t no astronauts, doctors, or veterinarians around here. Everybody I know just tryna work.”

— Angie Thomas

130. “I can’t explain the look in her eyes, but it knows me better than I know myself. It wraps me up and warms me from the inside out. “Brave doesn’t mean you’re not scared, Starr,” she says. “It means you go on even though you’re scared. And you’re doing that.”

— Angie Thomas

131. “Although not all of you are “blood” family, you’re “love” family.”

— Angie Thomas

132. “Seven and I get Sekani after school, and he won’t shut up about the news cameras he saw from his classroom window, because he’s Sekani and he came into this world looking for a camera. I have too many selfies of him on my phone giving the “light skin face,” his eyes squinted and eyebrows raised.”

— Angie Thomas

133. “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

134. “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

135. “It’s dope to be black until it’s hard to be black.”

— Angie Thomas

136. “They claim that a person’s eyes say more than their mouth, and that it goes both way – if we look someone in their eyes and mean what we say, they should have little reason to doubt us.”

— Angie Thomas

137. “Your heart will never lead you wrong, but it can be hard to hear it. You have to give it space to speak. That’s a form of love too.”

— Angie Thomas

138. “Slave masters thought they were making a difference in black people’s lives too. Saving them from their “wild African ways.”

— Angie Thomas

139. “I love you too,′ I murmur. ‘It’s hard for me to imagine myself not being with you, and that... that scares me. I don’t know who I am if I’m not your girlfriend. I don’t think it should be that way.”

— Angie Thomas

140. “Do it. Hell, get the song taken down if you want. But you’ll never silence me. I got too goddamn much to say.”

— Angie Thomas

141. “They act like I’m the official representative of the black race and they owe me an explanation. I think I understand though. If I sit out a protest, I’m making a statement, but if they sit out a protest, they look racist.”

— Angie Thomas

142. “By not saying “I” before “love you,” he’s making it more casual. Seriously, “love you” and “I love you” are different. Same team, different players. “Love you” isn’t as forward or aggressive as “I love you.” “Love you” can slip up on you, sure, but it doesn’t make an in-your-face slam dunk. More like a nice jump shot.”

— Angie Thomas

143. “Church is full of people with plenty to say and nothing to do. You’d think some of them would help us instead of talk about us, but I guess it’s easy to say you love Jesus and harder to act like him.”

— Angie Thomas

144. “We can love her with everything in us, but it doesn’t matter if she doesn’t love herself.”

— Angie Thomas

145. “All these flavors out here, and you choose to be salty” -Sonny.”

— Angie Thomas

146. “I can’t explain the look in her eyes, but it knows me better than I know myself. It wraps me up and warms me from the inside out.”

— Angie Thomas

147. “The Garden passes by my window. Older folks water their flowers or bring out their trash cans. A couple of cars blast music on high. Seems normal, but things haven’t been the same since the riots. The neighborhood doesn’t feel nearly as safe. Not that the Garden was ever a utopia, hell no, but before I only worried about GDs and Crowns. Now I gotta worry about the cops too?”

— Angie Thomas

148. “A hairbrush is not a gun.”

— Angie Thomas

149. “Can’t believe you still love whiny-ass Drake.”

— Angie Thomas

150. “The world got some nerve going on without him. People laughing and dreaming when Dre can’t.”

— Angie Thomas