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“I've seen it happen over and over again: a black person gets killed just for being black, and all hell breaks loose. I’ve tweeted RIP hashtags, reblogged pictures on Tumblr, and signed every petition out there. I always said that if I saw it happen to somebody, I would have the loudest voice, making sure the world knew what went down. Now I am that person, and I’m too afraid to speak.”

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“After our date on Monday, I put the heart-eyes emoji next to his name in my contacts. I mean, the boy brought me flowers and a Storm comic, and since we didn’t have time to stay for dessert at the restaurant, he brought me a small pack of Chips Ahoy! to eat on the way back to school. He earned those heart eyes. He just sent a couple of texts to guarantee that he keeps them. Do your thing tonight, Princess. Wish I could be there. I probably couldn’t pay attention to your song tho I’d be staring at you too hard Corny? Yes. But it gets a smile out of me. Before I can respond, though, he adds: I’d be staring at that ass too but you know I probably ain’t supposed to admit that. I smirk. Why you admitting it now then? His answer? Cause I bet it made you smile Just for that, I’m adding a second heart-eyes emoji to his name.”

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“-En primer lugar, ¿cómo fue que las drogas entraron en nuestro barrio? Estamos hablando de una industria de muchos miles de millones de dólares, nena. Traen esa mierda en avión a nuestras comunidades, pero no conozco a nadie que tenga un jet privado, ¿y tú? -No. -Allí está. Las drogas vienen de algún lado, y están destrozando nuestra comunidad- dice papá -. Hay gente como Brenda, que piensa que la necesita para sobrevivir, y luego hay otros como Khalil, que piensan que deben venderla para sobrevivir. Las Brendas no pueden conseguir trabajo a menos que no estén enganchadas, y no pueden pagar una rehabilitación a menos que tengan trabajo. Cuando arrestan a los Khalils por vender drogas, o se pasan la mayor parte de sus vidas en la cárcel, que es otra industria de miles de millones de dólares, o les cuesta muchísimo esfuerzo conseguir trabajo de verdad, y lo más probable es que comiencen a vender drogas otra vez. Ése es el odio que nos dan, nena, un sistema diseñado en contra de nosotros. Eso quiere decir Thug Life.”

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“Sonny shows me his phone. It’s a text message from Rapid, sent this morning, and it consists of one simple-but-not-so-simple question: Wanna meet up? My mouth drops. “Seriously?” “Seriously,” Sonny says. “Holy shit.” There’s one problem though. “Why haven’t you responded?” “I don’t know,” he says. “Part of me is like, hell yeah. The other part feels like this shit is too good to be true. What if he’s really a fifty-year-old man who lives in his mom’s basement and has a malicious plot to murder me and leave my body parts spread out across his backyard, unknown to anyone, until twenty years from now when a stray dog sniffs me out?” I stare at him. “The specifics in your examples are disturbing sometimes.”

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“You got folks like Brenda, who think they need them to survive, and then you got the Khalils, who think they need to see them to survive. The Brendas can't get jobs unless they're clean, and they can't pay for rehab unless they got jobs. When the Khalils get arrested for selling drugs, they either spend most of their life in prison, another billion-dollar industry, or they have a hard time getting a real job and probably start selling drugs again. That's the hate they're giving us, baby, a system designed against us. That's Thug Life' (170)”

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