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Top 15 Christina Hammonds Reed Quotes (2025 Update)

Christina Hammonds Reed Quote: “Make new friends, but keep the old, one is silver, the other is gold. A circle’s round, it has no end, that’s how long I will be your friend.”

1. “Make new friends, but keep the old, one is silver, the other is gold. A circle’s round, it has no end, that’s how long I will be your friend.”

— Christina Hammonds Reed

Christina Hammonds Reed Quote: “Sometimes it’s hard being a girl, and it’s hard being black. Being both is like carrying a double load, but you’re not supposed to complain about it. There are so many things you have to remember about how to be.”

2. “Sometimes it’s hard being a girl, and it’s hard being black. Being both is like carrying a double load, but you’re not supposed to complain about it. There are so many things you have to remember about how to be.”

— Christina Hammonds Reed

Christina Hammonds Reed Quote: “We have to walk around being perfect all the time just to be seen as human. Don’t you ever get tired of being a symbol? Don’t you ever just want to be human?”

3. “We have to walk around being perfect all the time just to be seen as human. Don’t you ever get tired of being a symbol? Don’t you ever just want to be human?”

— Christina Hammonds Reed

Christina Hammonds Reed Quote: “Sometimes being different means hiding pieces of yourself away so other people’s mean can’t find them.”

4. “Sometimes being different means hiding pieces of yourself away so other people’s mean can’t find them.”

— Christina Hammonds Reed

Christina Hammonds Reed Quote: “It’s not just about Rodney. It’s about all of us.”

5. “It’s not just about Rodney. It’s about all of us.”

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Christina Hammonds Reed Quote: “What do you do when the people you love no longer feel like home?”

6. “What do you do when the people you love no longer feel like home?”

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Christina Hammonds Reed Quote: “I wonder if growing up in a war zone disarms you so you can’t even tell why your heart races, just the constant awareness that it does.”

7. “I wonder if growing up in a war zone disarms you so you can’t even tell why your heart races, just the constant awareness that it does.”

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Christina Hammonds Reed Quote: “You can’t tell people to pull up on bootstraps when half of them never had any boots to begin with, never even had the chance to get them.”

8. “You can’t tell people to pull up on bootstraps when half of them never had any boots to begin with, never even had the chance to get them.”

— Christina Hammonds Reed

Christina Hammonds Reed Quote: “He looked like a bullied kid turned bully, the kind of kid who’d been too big, too poor, or too dumb and was now more than happy to pull over anybody he deemed too anything. In our case, too black. “Why are you pulling me over?” my mother asked. Her hair looked a little crazy, and she smoothed it down quickly.”

9. “He looked like a bullied kid turned bully, the kind of kid who’d been too big, too poor, or too dumb and was now more than happy to pull over anybody he deemed too anything. In our case, too black. “Why are you pulling me over?” my mother asked. Her hair looked a little crazy, and she smoothed it down quickly.”

— Christina Hammonds Reed

Christina Hammonds Reed Quote: “Morgan gives me a dirty look. I know that she resents me and resents being here. She thinks I don’t care. But it’s not that; it’s that there’s so very much to care about, so much to feel, and instead of trying to sort out what’s in my head, sometimes I don’t want to feel any of it at all.”

10. “Morgan gives me a dirty look. I know that she resents me and resents being here. She thinks I don’t care. But it’s not that; it’s that there’s so very much to care about, so much to feel, and instead of trying to sort out what’s in my head, sometimes I don’t want to feel any of it at all.”

— Christina Hammonds Reed

Christina Hammonds Reed Quote: “Sometimes when you want to disappear, it’s easiest to hide in music.”

11. “Sometimes when you want to disappear, it’s easiest to hide in music.”

— Christina Hammonds Reed

Christina Hammonds Reed Quote: “Latasha was black. Latasha was a girl. Latasha was my age. She went into a liquor store to buy orange juice, and the Korean woman at the counter thought she was stealing. She wasn’t. They got into a fight, and as Latasha tried to walk away, the woman at the counter shot her in the back of the head. Over orange juice. Her killer got probation, community service, and a five hundred dollar fine.”

12. “Latasha was black. Latasha was a girl. Latasha was my age. She went into a liquor store to buy orange juice, and the Korean woman at the counter thought she was stealing. She wasn’t. They got into a fight, and as Latasha tried to walk away, the woman at the counter shot her in the back of the head. Over orange juice. Her killer got probation, community service, and a five hundred dollar fine.”

— Christina Hammonds Reed

Christina Hammonds Reed Quote: “When you’ve known somebody too long, it’s like they’re talking to a version of you from years ago, even though you’ve updated all your software. You’re the same program, except also you’re not. It’s a little easier around somebody who doesn’t know you as well, who doesn’t remember that one bad haircut from fourth grade, or the first kid you had a crush on. Somebody who doesn’t feel comfortable calling your parents by their first names. Somebody who doesn’t know your parents’ names at all.”

13. “When you’ve known somebody too long, it’s like they’re talking to a version of you from years ago, even though you’ve updated all your software. You’re the same program, except also you’re not. It’s a little easier around somebody who doesn’t know you as well, who doesn’t remember that one bad haircut from fourth grade, or the first kid you had a crush on. Somebody who doesn’t feel comfortable calling your parents by their first names. Somebody who doesn’t know your parents’ names at all.”

— Christina Hammonds Reed

Christina Hammonds Reed Quote: “I’m beginning to think that’s kind of what being an adult is. Learning that sometimes people are a little bit wrong, but not for the reasons you think they are, and also a little bit right, and you try to take the good with the bad.”

14. “I’m beginning to think that’s kind of what being an adult is. Learning that sometimes people are a little bit wrong, but not for the reasons you think they are, and also a little bit right, and you try to take the good with the bad.”

— Christina Hammonds Reed

Christina Hammonds Reed Quote: “We all sew a few sequins on our stories to make them shine brighter.”

15. “We all sew a few sequins on our stories to make them shine brighter.”

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Christina Hammonds Reed Quote: “Sadness for them is a cause and effect, not simply a way to be.”

16. “Sadness for them is a cause and effect, not simply a way to be.”

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Christina Hammonds Reed Quote: “Sometimes the act of growing up cleaves you apart, and even though you walk through the world made of the same stuff, you can’t quite make your way back to the start. There’s too much matter between you.”

17. “Sometimes the act of growing up cleaves you apart, and even though you walk through the world made of the same stuff, you can’t quite make your way back to the start. There’s too much matter between you.”

— Christina Hammonds Reed

Christina Hammonds Reed Quote: “On Friday nights, before I got old enough to make bad decisions at other people’s houses, I used to sit with Lucia as she got ready to make hers.”

18. “On Friday nights, before I got old enough to make bad decisions at other people’s houses, I used to sit with Lucia as she got ready to make hers.”

— Christina Hammonds Reed

Christina Hammonds Reed Quote: “All of which, I suppose, isn’t entirely untrue, but it’s also not entirely true. We all sew a few sequins on our stories to make them shine brighter.”

19. “All of which, I suppose, isn’t entirely untrue, but it’s also not entirely true. We all sew a few sequins on our stories to make them shine brighter.”

— Christina Hammonds Reed

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